Man eats friend

Motif

Man eats friend.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G74

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

NorseThe Poetic Edda, HOVAMOLHOVAMOL
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 1.164
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit)The Hymns of the Rigveda, 6.15
Literary CrystallizationUlysses, 16 Eumaeus
GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS

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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 121.

Within the index

Filed under Occasional cannibalism – deliberate.

Filed beside it

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

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