Person as servant in ogre's house

Motif

Person as servant in ogre's house.

Ogres. · Falling into ogre's power. · Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as G462

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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.

India*Thompson-Balys.
general Types 314, 428

Within the index

Filed under Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Hero as giant's (ogre's) goatherd

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.)Youth promised to ogre visits ogre's home 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 3144 recorded variants

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