Aged person eaten

Motif

Aged person eaten.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G76

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 8989.— THE GOOSE-GIEL.
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section CLXVIII

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
Africa (Zulu)Callaway 168.

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 Man eats friend Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten Husband eats wife Cannibalism during plague Occasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous

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