462 motifs match “ogre” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Devil (ogre) steals thunder's instruments. A162.3.1
• Sun and moon born from an ogre. A715.3
• World devoured by ogre. A1099.2
• Former age: spirits and ogres lived with men, and gods appeared in human guise. A1101.1.3
• Progressive degeneration to present race of men. A1220.1
• Country ridded of ogres and made peaceful. A1416
• Animals from transformed ogre or giant. A1716
• Abused and pampered horses. Hero is ordered by ogre to feed and care for certain horse and to neglect other horse. Hero disobeys and feeds neglected horse. Latter is enchanted prince and helps hero. (Cf. B181.) B316
• Helpful centipede kills ogre. B524.1.10
• Tabu: calling on ogre or destructive animal. C20
• "Ah me!": ogre's name uttered. He appears. C21
• Child threatened with ogre. Latter takes child off. C25.1
• Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human being. D10.1
• Transformation: ogress to man. D11.1
• Transformation: normal men to ogres. Become ravenous. D47.2
• Transformation: princess to ogress. D47.3
• Transformation: man to ogre. D94
• Transformation: ogress's tongue to surfboard. D457.14.1
• Change of sex by exchange with a yaksa (ogre). (Cf. D10.) D593
• Transformation to hide from ogress. D642.5.1
• Transformation to escape ogress. D642.6
• Magic object taken from ogre's house. D838.2
• Magic tree guarded by giant ogre. D950.0.1.1
• Woman's arm-tassel lent to ogre compels her to follow him. D1427.2
• Magic diamond on ogre's waist opens passage in tank by its reflection on water. D1551.7
• Pillars dance when ogre plays guitar. (Cf. D1234.) D1599.1
• Magic fish talk so that ogre thinks hero has many brothers with him. (Cf. B175.) D1613.1
• Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness. D1825.3.1
• Magic invulnerability of ogres. D1840.3
• Magic sleep by lousing. Picking the lice from the head of an old person or an ogre is used to put him to sleep. D1962.2
• Magic invisibility of ogre. (Cf. G301.) D1981.4
• Magic adhesion to monster (witch, ogre, etc.). (Old Man of the Sea, Burr-Woman.) D2171.2
• Resuscitation of decapitated princess by hero by imitating ogre's actions of night before: passing sword three times up and down her throat. E149.2
• Dead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitive. E631.4
• External soul. A person (often a giant or ogre) keeps his soul or life separate from the rest of his body. E710
• Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress. E710.1
• Ogre's soul in "pale spot" below his right ear. (Cf. Z311.2.) E714.10
• Ogre's life in parrot's feather in man's pocket. E715.1.3.1
• Ogre with life in parrot, speaks from inside parrot. E715.1.3.2
• Multiple separable souls: ogre's separable spirits live in a tree (plant), fish, honey bee. E718
• Life token: direction dagger points determines if ogress has been killed. E761.7.15
• Evil spirits. Demons. See whole chapter "G" for witches and ogres. F402
• Trolls. Sometimes underground spirits, sometimes also thought of as mountain-spirits. In many tales trolls are ogres. (Cf. G100, G400–G599.) F455
• Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.) F531
• Strong man serves ogre as punishment for stealing food. F613.4
• Skillful marksman shoots both eyes of an ogre. F661.5.4
• Room heated by crowded corpses kept on hand by ghoulish ogres. F686.2
• Castle inhabited by ogres. F771.4.1
• Castle guarded by giants (ogres). F771.5.2
• Deity lights a great fire, and all the children ogress has devoured come out of it. F913.2
• Wind carries ogre to his castle. F963.4
• Madness from seeing ugly ogre. F1041.8.3
• Ogres. G0
• Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. G11.6.1
• Ogre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes her. G11.9
• Seven-mouthed cannibal ogre. G11.17
• Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty. G13.2
• Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her. G17
• Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater. G34
• Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre. G37
• Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. G83.1
• Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. G86.1
• 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
• 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
• Possessions of giant ogres. G110
• Giant ogres possess castle. G111
• Physical characteristics of giant ogres. G120
• Blind giant ogre. G121
• One-eyed giant (ogre). G121.1.1
• Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder. G123
• 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
• Giant ogre's prodigious speed. G157
• Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. G264.0.1
• Female ogre seduces men with charm (words). G264.3
• Curse by other angry ogres or ogresses. G269.4.1
• Other ogres. G300
• Monsters. Usually not clearly defined. See this entire chapter on ogres. G301
• Devil. (The Devil, Satan, The Bad Man, Old Nick, etc.) Not clearly differentiated, especially in German tradition, from the stupid ogre. (See also F531 (Giant), G100–199 and G500–699.) G303
• Troll as ogre. (For troll as underground spirit or mountain spirit see F455. For troll-woman see G200–G299, Witches.) G304
• Appearance of troll (ogre). (Cf. F455.2.) G304.1
• Earl king. Child-stealing ogre. (Cf. F321.5.) G305
• Rainbow as ogre. G306
• Shark-man ogre, eater of children swimming. G308.5
• Ogres with characteristic methods. G310
• Old man of the sea. Burr-woman. Ogre who jumps on one's back and sticks there magically. G311
• Cannibal ogre. G312
• Man-eating ogre fries his victims in kettle of oil. G312.4
• Ogre eats only men's hearts. G312.6
• Ogress devours horses. G312.7
• Wrestling ogre. G317
• Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff. G321
• Ogress at a spot along the road takes toll of lives. G321.2