Ogres

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• Ogres. G0
• Cannibalism. G10
• Kinds of cannibals. G11
• Cannibalistic god. G11.0.1
• As result of fraud, Saturn swallows stone instead of infant Jove. G11.0.1.1
• Father of goddess as cannibal. G11.0.1.2
• Cannibal dwarfs. G11.1
• Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) G11.2
• Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. G11.2.1
• Cannibal witch. G11.3
• Negro cannibal. G11.4
• Water cannibal. G11.5
• Man-eating woman. G11.6
• Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. G11.6.1
• Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly. G11.6.2
• Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. G11.6.3
• Woman devours her husband. G11.6.4
• Cannibalistic king. G11.7
• Cannibal meteor. G11.8
• Stars as cannibals. G11.8.1
• Ogre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes her. G11.9
• Cannibalistic spirits. G11.10
• Cannibalistic spirits in upper world. G11.10.1
• Cannibal with extraordinary features. (Cf. G88.) G11.11
• Albino twins with cannibal appetite. G11.11.1
• Hairless cannibal. G11.11.2
• Cannibal with winnowing tray and pestle. G11.12
• Gambling cannibal. G11.13
• Jungle-man as cannibal. G11.14
• Cannibal demon. G11.15
• Army of cannibal monsters. G11.16
• Seven-mouthed cannibal ogre. G11.17
• Cannibal tribe. G11.18
• Cannibal people driven from land. G11.18.1
• Transformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats men. G12
• Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh. G13
• Ritual cannibalism: corpse of hero (demigod) eaten to acquire his strength. G13.1
• Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty. G13.2
• Human being devoured daily. G15
• Giant eats men on New Year's Day. G15.1
• Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her. G17
• Haunts of cannibals. G18
• Cannibals live at cemetery. G18.1
• Ghouls. Persons eat corpses. G20
• Devil as husband eats corpses. G20.1
• Female eater of corpses. G21
• People who eat their parents when they die, saying: they carried us in their bodies when we were born; now we shall do the same for them. G23
• Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) G25
• Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law. G27
• Person becomes cannibal. G30
• Children flee from father who turns cannibal. G31
• Child born as cannibal. G33
• Cannibal disenchanted by overcoming it. Becomes maiden. G33.1
• Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater. G34
• Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism. G36
• Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. G36.1
• Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. G36.2
• People fear that boy who eats raw birds will eat them when he grows older. G36.2.1
• Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre. G37
• Occasional cannibalism. G50
• Person eats own flesh. G51
• Person eats self up. G51.1
• People who eat child become supernatural. G55
• Human flesh eaten unwittingly. G60
• Relative's flesh eaten unwittingly. G61
• Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.1
• Girl avoids eating her mother's flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen. G61.1.1
• Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.2
• Murderer caused to eat victim's flesh unwittingly. Sickens and dies. G62
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Human flesh being cooked speaks out. G64
• Occasional cannibalism – deliberate. G70
• Hungry seamen eat human flesh. G70.1
• Unnatural children eat parent. G71
• Girl attempts to eat parents but they escape. G71.1
• Unnatural parents eat children. G72
• Woman plans to eat her children. G72.1
• Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. G72.2
• Girl child fed on infant boys' flesh to make her grow faster. G72.3
• Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.) G72.4
• Girls eat their sister. G73
• Brothers eat their sister. G73.1
• Brother eats brother. G73.2
• Man eats friend. G74
• Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten. G75
• Aged person eaten. G76
• Husband eats wife. G77
• Cannibalism during plague. G78
• Cannibalism in time of famine. G78.1
• Occasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous. G79
• Animal-wife devours her husband. G79.1
• Woman eats daughter-in-law. G79.2
• Other motifs dealing with cannibals. G80
• Unwitting marriage to cannibal G81
• Cannibal marries wife by force. G81.1
• Cannibal fattens victim. G82
• Cannibal cuts captive's finger to test fatness. G82.1
• Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness. G82.1.1
• Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive. G83
• Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. G83.1
• Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.) G84
• Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. G85
• Cannibals cut off parts of children's bodies. G86
• Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. G86.1
• Cannibal crunching human bone says noise is only eating of peas. G87
• Cannibal has long tooth and long nail. G88
• Men with iron claws eat girl. G88.1
• Man-eater with two great tusks on which he hangs the carcasses of the dead. G88.2
• Cannibalism brings madness. G91
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart goes mad. G91.1
• Man forced to eat dead father's heart struck dumb. G91.1.1
• Cannibalism causes death. G91.2
• Cannibal hard to lift. G92
• Cannibal breaks wind as means of attack. G93
• Cannibal's gigantic meal. G94
• Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. G94.1
• Cannibal ogres eat daily ten men, ten women, ten children from the same tribe. G94.2
• Old man says his arm is getting thin – indicates desire for human flesh. G95
• Giant ogre. Polyphemus. (For motifs concerning giants who are not malevolent but merely large, see F531.) G100
• Giant ogre (Fomorian). G100.1
• Giant gambler as ogre. G101
• Valley of the one hundred giants. G105
• Possessions of giant ogres. G110
• Giant ogres possess castle. G111
• Giant's fields fertile; others arid. G112
• Physical characteristics of giant ogres. G120
• Blind giant ogre. G121
• Three giants with one eye. They pass it around. G121.1
• One-eyed giant (ogre). G121.1.1
• Giant's hair grows into rock. He is thus kept from falling from cliff. G122
• Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder. G123
• Skeleton giant. G124
• Fire-spewing giantess. G125
• Giant ogre in shape of animal. G126
• Giant ogre in the shape of a cat. G126.1
• Giant ogre in shape of horse. G126.2
• Customs of giant ogres. G130
• Giant ogre never crosses water. G131
• Giant ogres – miscellaneous. G150
• Two giants with one axe. They throw it back and forth to each other. G151
• Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy. G152
• Giant with tree for herding-stick. G152.1
• Giant hacked so that a staircase is made up his body. Hero climbs up and kills him. G154
• King of the giants. G156
• Giant ogre's prodigious speed. G157
• Giant's shriek heard five miles away. G158
• Giant issues out of tiny vessel. G161
• Giant lives in a castle in the air. G162
• Giant roasts camels, elephants for food on crater of volcano. G171
• Witch. G200
• Three witch sisters. Sometimes simply three hags. G201
• Three witches (hags) deformed from much spinning. G201.1
• Beneficent witches. G202
• Origin of witches. G203
• Witch daughter of fairy and man. G203.1
• Witches come forth at emergence of mankind. G203.2
• Girl in service of witch. G204
• Witch stepmother. G205
• Witch has (three) giant sons. G206
• Male witch. G207
• Form of witch. G210
• Witch invisible. (Cf. A11, D1980, E421.1, G303.6.2.1, F235.1, E501.1.) G210.0.1
• Witch in animal form. G211
• Witch in form of domestic beast. G211.1
• Witch in form of horse. (Cf. D131.) G211.1.1
• Witch in form of headless horse. G211.1.1.1
• Witch as horse shod with horseshoes. G211.1.1.2
• Witch in form of mule. G211.1.2
• Witch in form of cow. G211.1.3
• Witch in form of sheep. G211.1.4
• Witch in form of goat. (Cf. G262.3.1.) G211.1.5
• Witch in form of hog. G211.1.6
• Witch in form of cat. (Cf. D142.) G211.1.7
• Witch in form of dog. (Cf. D141.) G211.1.8
• Witch in form of wild beast. G211.2
• Witch in form of bear. (Cf. D113.2.) G211.2.1
• Witch in form of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.) G211.2.2
• Witch in form of fox. (Cf. D113.3.) G211.2.3
• Witch in form of deer. G211.2.4
• Witch in form of stag. G211.2.4.1
• Witch in form of mouse. (Cf. D117.1.) G211.2.5
• Witch in form of rat. G211.2.6
• Witch in form of hare. (Cf. D123.) G211.2.7
• Witch as hare allows self to be coursed by dogs for pay or for sport. G211.2.7.1
• Witch as raccoon. G211.2.8
• Witch as hedgehog. G211.2.9
• Witch in form of bat. G211.2.10
• Witch in form of domestic bird. G211.3
• Witch in form of hen. (Cf. D166.) G211.3.1
• Witch in form of rooster. G211.3.1.1
• Witch in form of duck. (Cf. D165.) G211.3.2
• Witch in form of goose (gosling). G211.3.3
• Witch in form of wild bird. G211.4
• Witch in form of crow. (Cf. D151.4.) G211.4.1
• Witch in form of partridge. G211.4.2
• Witch in form of heath hen. G211.4.3
• Witch in form of owl. G211.4.4
• Witch in the form of buzzard. G211.4.5
• Witch in form of an insect. G211.5
• Witch in form of fly. (Cf. D185.) G211.5.1