Husband eats wife

Motif

Husband eats wife.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism. · Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. · view the constellation · filed as G77

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Ancient EgyptianThe Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chapter CXLIV

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 886
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen III 157, Rink 106
general S. Am. Indian (More): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 406, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 161.

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 Aged person eaten Cannibalism during plague Occasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous

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