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Motif

Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Human flesh eaten unwittingly. · view the constellation · filed as G61.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 167, 173, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 314 No. 54.
Within the index

Filed under Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly.

1 finer motif beneath it
Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen
Filed beside it
Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten

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