Great head as ogre. Head detached from body pursues or flies about doing damage

Motif

Great head as ogre. Head detached from body pursues or flies about doing damage.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Ogres with monstrous features. · view the constellation · filed as G361.2

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 262, 291
general S. Am. Indian (Caviña, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, (Araucanian): Alexander Lat. Am. 329.

Within the index

Filed under Ogre monstrous as to head. (Cf. G369.4.)

Filed beside it

Many-headed ogre Headless ogre

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