Cannibal fattens victim

Motif

Cannibal fattens victim.

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

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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. 9
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 107, Holm 11
general *Type 327, 314, *BP I 115ff.
general Chauvin VII 19 No. 373D
general N. Am. Indian (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 448 No. 8.

Within the index

Filed under Other motifs dealing with cannibals.

1 finer motif beneath it

Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness

Filed beside it

Unwitting marriage to cannibal 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

Travels with

Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.)

Carried in tale types

Hansel and Gretel · ATU 327A12 recorded variants

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