Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home — Mythoi

Motif

Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home.

Ogres. · Falling into ogre's power. · Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as G461

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 313, 314, 313***

Within the index

Filed under Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Boy in ogre's house sees many human heads placed in rows: heads smile and weep

Filed beside it

Following witch's fire into her power Youth takes service with ogre Falling into ogre's power through fascination with his daughter. (Cf. G530.2.) Person as servant in ogre's house Ogre guesses correctly and gets princess Ogre tyrannizes over fairyland Ogre sets impossible tasks Lousing as task set by ogre Ogre attacks intruders Ugly ogre terrifies women who flee and are drowned Ogre kills men and rapes women Ogre kills noisy children

Carried in tale types

Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse) · ATU 314 4 recorded variants

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