Unnatural parents eat children

Motif

Unnatural parents eat children.

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

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos 148, 216
Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 8 n. 2 (Zeus and Kronos) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. II
Jewish Gaster Exempla 198f. No. 69
India Thompson-Balys
New Zealand Dixon 85
Hawaii Beckwith 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 children 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.)

Filed beside it

Hungry seamen eat human flesh Unnatural children eat parent Girls eat their sister Man eats friend Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten Aged person eaten Husband eats wife Cannibalism during plague Occasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Fight of the gods and giants Escape by use of substituted object. The object is attacked rather than the intended victim

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