Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child

Motif

Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G72.2

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Unnatural parents eat children.

Filed beside it

Woman plans to eat her children 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.)

Carried in tale types

The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen · ATU 462 2 recorded variants

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