Ogre deceived into self-injury

Motif

Ogre deceived into self-injury.

Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Ogre deceived into self-injury. · view the constellation · filed as G520

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

N. Am. IndianThompson CColl II 359.
general *Type 328

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Ogre made drunk and overcome Ogre persuaded to drink pond dry bursts Ogre kills self when he sees crumbs lying on his belly Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood Sea people give the ogre brandy (tar)Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt Giant killed by his own bucket of death water; captive princess tells him to wash Stupid ogre duped into cutting off his own buttocks

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