Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness

Motif

Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Other motifs dealing with cannibals. · view the constellation · filed as G82.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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general *Type 327
general BP I 115ff.
general Fb "slagte", "finger".

Within the index

Filed under Cannibal fattens victim.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Carried in tale types

Hansel and Gretel · ATU 327A12 recorded variants

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