Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster

Motif

Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G72.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Unnatural parents eat children.

Filed beside it

Woman plans to eat her children Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.)

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