Person eats self up — Mythoi

Motif

Person eats self up.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · view the constellation · filed as G51.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 38 receipt

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIII XLIII. Dionysus
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 1, Story 7
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 66 66.— THE HARE'S BRIDE.

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 186
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109m, (California): Gayton and Newman 92
Africa (Togo) Einstein 12f.

Within the index

Filed under Person eats own flesh.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Trickster's burnt flesh becomes gum on trees Transformation to be put in food-bag Transformation to seduce Magic treasure animal killed. (Goose that laid the golden egg) Magic garment (robe, tunic) Magic reawakening of memory. (Cf. D1360, D1910.) Killed game revives and flies away Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Trickster joins bulrushes in a dance. He thinks they are dancing when he sees them waving Person frightened into falling down a cliff Deceptive scratching contest Thief frightens owner from goods

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