Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat

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Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Human flesh eaten unwittingly. · view the constellation · filed as G63

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Human flesh eaten unwittingly.

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Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly Murderer caused to eat victim's flesh unwittingly. Sickens and dies Human flesh being cooked speaks out

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