Ogre killed by throwing hot stones (metal) into his throat

Motif

Ogre killed by throwing hot stones (metal) into his throat.

Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Ogre killed, maimed, or captured. · view the constellation · filed as G512.3.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

MaoriBeckwith Myth 196
Tahitiibid. 197 n. 21 and ch. 13 passim
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 324 n. 167, 353 n. 274, (California): Gayton and Newman 70
Africa (Congo)Weeks 203 No. 1, (Fang): Tessman 150, (Boloki): Weeks Congo 203.
general Oceanic (New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Melanesia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Polynesia): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 133 n. 6

Within the index

Filed under Ogre burned to death.

Filed beside it

Ogre burned in his own oven Grass as fuel for burning ogre Jinn falls into cauldron of boiling oil, thinking it is food

Carried in tale types

Hot Porridge in the Ogre's Throat · ATU 11311 recorded variant

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