μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Greek Fox 70, 119, 120 (Prokne and Tereus, Tantalus, Thyestes)
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 573
  • Chinese Graham
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Indonesian De Vries's list Nos. 227, 228
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 106, 128, 160, 286, 447, Holm 43, 90, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 215, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 627, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 229
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 300 nn. 97, 98 and 340 n. 226
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 20, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 402 No. 2, 405 No. 4, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Angola): Chatelain 191 No. 24, (Thonga): Junod 217, (Fjort): Dennett 82 No. 19, (Benga): Nassau 105 No. 8, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38, 276 No. 41
  • American Negro (Georgia) Harris Nights 314 No. 54, Remus 165 No. 34
  • Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 73 n. 3.
  • general *Type 720
  • general BP I 412ff.
  • general *MacCulloch Childhood 283ff.
  • general *Cosquin Études 394
  • general *Fb "menneskekjød" II 579b. Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Oceanic (Indonesia, New Zealand, Molucca): Dixon 58, 195, 229f.
  • general S. Am. Indian (Baikairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 303
Within the index

Filed under Human flesh eaten unwittingly.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten
Filed beside it
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
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Crane-bridge. Fugitives are helped across a stream by a crane who lets them cross on his leg. The pursuer is either refused assistance or drowned by the crane
Carried in tale types

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