Ogre made drunk and overcome — Mythoi

Motif

Ogre made drunk and overcome.

Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Ogre deceived into self-injury. · view the constellation · filed as G521

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 32f. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
Japanese Anesaki 306
Africa (Yoruba) Ellis 258 No. 1.
general *BP III 106
general Gaster Thespis 328

Within the index

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Filed beside it

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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.) Giant wades the ocean Giant throws a great rock Blindness healed by sun's rays Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.) God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god Birth from person's head

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