μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • Maori Beckwith Myth 196
  • Tahiti ibid. 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

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