Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.)

Motif

Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.)

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Cannibals and cannibalism. · Other motifs dealing with cannibals. · view the constellation · filed as G84

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Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 12
BretonSébillot "chair"
Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 230
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
KoreanZong in-Sob 89, 168
Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 111, 184
MaoriClark 39, 100
TongaGifford 168
TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/931, z-G. 3/1276)
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 357 n. 287h
AfricaWerner African 233, (Kaffir): Theal 80, 118, 124, 138, (Zanzibar): Bateman 133, (Ekoi): Talbot 56, 63, (Basuto): Jacottet 4, 206, 218, 234, (Angola): Chatelain 117, (Zulu): Callaway 40.
general *Type 327
general *Fb "kristenblod" II 300a. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 29, 312 No. 67

Within the index

Filed under Other motifs dealing with cannibals.

Filed beside it

Unwitting marriage to cannibal Cannibal fattens victim Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive 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.)Stars as cannibals

Carried in tale types

Jack and the Beanstalk · ATU 328A1 recorded variant

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