Stupid ogre.
Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Ogre defeated. · view the constellation · filed as G501
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 277, Boberg
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "diable"
- Italian Basile Pentamerone II No. 3
- India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer III 33 N. 3, 34 n.
- Chinese Werner 211 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter VII
- Filipino Fansler MAFLS XII 51, 376
- German New Guinea Dixon 133ff.
- N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 351f. nn. 268, 268a, 270a, 270b, 271, 271b, (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 445, (California): Gayton and Newman 69. For incidents connected with the stupid ogre see G500–G599, besides the many cases of deception scattered throughout chapter K.
- general *Types 311, 312, 327, 328, 330, 1000–1199
- general **Wünsche Teufel
- general Gaster Thespis 328
- general **Hackman Die Polyphemsage
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