Man pretends to cut toenails of cannibal woman: kills her — Mythoi

Motif

Man pretends to cut toenails of cannibal woman: kills her.

Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Ogre killed, maimed, or captured. · view the constellation · filed as G519.1.2

Filed across the traditions

Eskimo (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 190.

Within the index

Filed under Ogre's wife killed through other tricks.

Filed beside it

Faithful hound kills ogre's wife Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring

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