Lousing as task set by ogre — Mythoi

Motif

Lousing as task set by ogre.

Ogres. · Falling into ogre's power. · Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as G466

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Pausanias V 269f.
Africa Werner African 205.
general *Type 480, Roberts 167f.

Within the index

Filed under Falling into ogre's power – miscellaneous.

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 Person as servant in ogre's house Ogre guesses correctly and gets princess Ogre tyrannizes over fairyland Ogre sets impossible tasks 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

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480 12 recorded variants

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