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

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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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