μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12
  • Breton Sébillot "chair"
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 230
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 89, 168
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 111, 184
  • Maori Clark 39, 100
  • Tonga Gifford 168
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G. 3/931, z-G. 3/1276)
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287h
  • Africa Werner 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) Stars as cannibals
Carried in tale types

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