Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness

Motif

Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Other motifs dealing with cannibals. · view the constellation · filed as G82.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

KoreanZong in-Sob 147 No. 65.
general *Type 327
general BP I 115ff.
general *Fb "hale" I 537, "lysepile" II 487

Within the index

Filed under Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness.

Carried in tale types

Hansel and Gretel · ATU 327A12 recorded variants

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