Rescue of children from ogre by brother

Motif

Rescue of children from ogre by brother.

Ogres. · Ogre defeated. · Rescue from ogre. · view the constellation · filed as G551.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVILXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Africa (Kaffir)Kidd 233 No. 4
JamaicaBeckwith XVII 271 No. 83.
general *Type 327*

Within the index

Filed under Rescue from ogre by relative.

1 finer motif beneath it

Rescue of children from giant (ogre) by hero (skillful companions)

Filed beside it

Rescue of sister from ogre by brother Rescue of sister from ogre by another sister One brother rescues another from ogre Cannibal is killed by his wife's relatives

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