Unwitting marriage to cannibal

Motif

Unwitting marriage to cannibal

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Other motifs dealing with cannibals. · view the constellation · filed as G81

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 5
IndiaThompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
Eskimo (Greenland)I 262
West IndiesFlowers 440.
general *Type 311
general *MacCulloch Childhood 291ff.

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Filed under Other motifs dealing with cannibals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Cannibal marries wife by force

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Cannibal fattens victim Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.)Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts Cannibals cut off parts of children's bodies Cannibal crunching human bone says noise is only eating of peas Cannibal has long tooth and long nail Cannibalism brings madness Cannibal hard to lift Cannibal breaks wind as means of attack Cannibal's gigantic meal Old man says his arm is getting thin – indicates desire for human flesh

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