Woman plans to eat her children

Motif

Woman plans to eat her children.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G72.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 26
North American Indigenous Myths of the Cherokee , Quadruped Myths — Myth 16 16. THE RABBIT GOES DUCK HUNTING
North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 6

Cited in the index

general *Type 450
general Grimm No. 143a → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 143
general BP III 151.

Within the index

Filed under Unnatural parents eat children.

Filed beside it

Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.)

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