Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism — Mythoi

Motif

Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Regular cannibalism. · Person becomes cannibal. · view the constellation · filed as G36

Filed across the traditions

Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 573.

Within the index

Filed under Person becomes cannibal.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh

Filed beside it

Children flee from father who turns cannibal Child born as cannibal Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre

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