Human flesh eaten unwittingly

Motif

Human flesh eaten unwittingly.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Human flesh eaten unwittingly. · view the constellation · filed as G60

Filed across the traditions

English Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon)
Italian Novella Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys.
general Penzer II 113

Within the index

4 finer motifs beneath it

Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly Murderer caused to eat victim's flesh unwittingly. Sickens and dies Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat Human flesh being cooked speaks out

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Accidental cannibalism. A man eats up the dried meat of a Jew on shipboard. It happens that the Jew is carrying his dead father back home for burial in this form. (Cf. G60.)

Carried in tale types

The Man from the Gallows · ATU 366 2 recorded variants

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