μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ogre carries victim in bag (basket).

Ogres. · Falling into ogre's power. · Ogre abducts person. · view the constellation · filed as G441

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“He ad- vised the children to run away, but they did not obey. When they saw the gum, they stepped up to the Snanaik and asked her to give them some. The Snanaik gave a piece of gum to all the children, and when she saw Anutkoats, who was advising the children to return home, she took him and threw him into the basket which she was carrying on her back. Then she took all the other children and threw them on top of him into her basket.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 71 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • NorwegianChristiansen 43f. No. 327**
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen II 85
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 351 n. 268a, (California): Gayton and Newman 96
  • Africa (Basuto)Jacottet 66 No. 10, (Kaffir): Theal 120, 134, (Zulu): Callaway 75.
  • general *Type 327
Within the index

Filed under Ogre abducts person.

Filed beside it
Child-stealing demon
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Person comes to lifePerson falls into ogre's powerBodies of victims in front of ogre's houseMask mistaken for faceStatue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.)Contest won by magicCaptor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escapeFalse beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures himSham physicianFugitive discovered by reflection in waterShepherdess born of red and blue egg

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