μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unnatural parents eat children.

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

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“EvpuBia Κητώ. Θαύμαντος μὲν οὖν καὶ Ἠλέκτρας Ἶρις καὶ ἅρπυιαι, Δελλὼ «καὶ» ᾿Ωκυπέτη, Φόρκου δὲ καὶ Κητοῦς Φορκίδες «καὶ; Γοργόνες, περὶ ὧν ἐροῦμεν ὅταν τὰ κατὰ Περσέα λέγωμεν, Νηρέως δὲ καὶ Δωρίδος ῖ Νηρηΐδες, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα Κυμοθόη Σπειὼ Γλαυκονόμη Ναυσιθόη ᾿Αλίη, Ἐρατὼ Law ᾿Αμφιτρίτη Εὐνίκη Θέτις, Εὐλεμένη ᾿Αγαύη Εὐ- δώρη Δωτὼ Φέρουσα, Γαλάτεια ᾿Ακταίη Ποντομέ- δουσα ᾿Ἱπποθόη Λυσιάνασσα, ζυμὼ ᾿Ηιόνη ᾿Αλε- μήδη Πληξαύρη Evepdytn, Upwra…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. II · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos 148, 216
  • Greek*Frazer Apollodorus I 8 n. 2 (Zeus and Kronos) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. II
  • JewishGaster Exempla 198f. No. 69
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • New ZealandDixon 85
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 199
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 89, Rasmussen III 121, 305
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 232 No. 46
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 31
  • Africa (Angola)Chatelain 99 No. 6, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413 No. 12, (Kaffir): Theal 140, (Zulu): Callaway 47, (Fang): Tessman 108, (Pangwe): Tessman 365.
  • general MacCulloch Childhood 293ff.
Within the index

Filed under Occasional cannibalism – deliberate.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Woman plans to eat her childrenStarving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn childGirl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow fasterVoice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.)
Filed beside it
Hungry seamen eat human fleshUnnatural children eat parentGirls eat their sisterMan eats friendFather takes his daughter to cannibal to be eatenAged person eatenHusband eats wifeCannibalism during plagueOccasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Fight of the gods and giantsEscape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim

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