58 motifs match “ogress”  ·  back to the chapters

• Progressive degeneration to present race of men. A1220.1
• Transformation: ogress to man. D11.1
• Transformation: princess to ogress. D47.3
• Transformation: ogress's tongue to surfboard. D457.14.1
• Transformation to hide from ogress. D642.5.1
• Transformation to escape ogress. D642.6
• Magic power of seeing Death at head or foot of bed and thus forecasting progress of sickness. D1825.3.1
• Dead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitive. E631.4
• Ferocious animal guardian of separable soul of ogress. E710.1
• Life token: direction dagger points determines if ogress has been killed. E761.7.15
• Deity lights a great fire, and all the children ogress has devoured come out of it. F913.2
• Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater. G34
• 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
• Giant ogress with breasts thrown over her shoulder. G123
• Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. G264.0.1
• Curse by other angry ogres or ogresses. G269.4.1
• Ogress devours horses. G312.7
• Ogress at a spot along the road takes toll of lives. G321.2
• Ogress has twenty captive princesses in cave. G334.1
• Ogress can make cold oven blaze by putting foot into it. G345.1
• Ogress in goat-form. G351.4
• Ogress in form of donkey. G351.5
• Ogress can extend leg or arm any distance. G365.2
• One-breasted ogress. G369.6
• Ogress invites boys to live in her house. G414
• Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. G510.5
• Hero killing an ogress gains her adopted daughter for his wife. (Cf. G510.1.) G512.0.3
• Hero pegs ogress to boulder. G514.5.1
• Ogresses caught in flood of lava. G514.6
• Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed. G519.1.3
• Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. G519.1.4
• Ogress lives in water. (Cf. F420.1.4.9, F426.) G639
• Ogress attracted by scent of sugar cane ravages city. G677
• Task: to win ogress' daughter for a bride. H305
• Tasks assigned at instigation of queen (disguised ogress). H919.6
• Task: stealing ogress's drum. H1151.24
• Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. H1401.2
• Progress in school. A man sends his two sons to schools and later enquires of their progress. One: "I am past Grace." The other: "I am at the devil and all his works." J1487
• "I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.) J1802.1
• Foolish bargain: progressive type. J2081
• Girl escapes from ogress by substituting pig. K525.7
• Queen hiding king disguised as child tells ogress she has borne child with moustache: ogress frightened. K547.10
• Cleanest girl to be eaten by ogress: clever girl shakes sesame into fire to simulate sound of burning lice. K619.1.1
• Ogress wife demands eyes of six wives of raja or she will die. K961.2.2
• Progressive purchase of favors: the anatomical progression. K1361.2
• Ghost-ogress pushes bride into hole in tree and takes her place. K1911.1.7
• Tiger-ogress pretends to be girls' mother: explains tail as boil. K2011.2
• Woman slandered as an ogress. K2124
• Ass gets progressively worse masters. Finally the farmer beats him living and will not spare his hide when he is dead. N255.2
• Progressive lucky bargains. (Opposite of J2081.) N421.1
• Objects accidentally picked up used to overawe ogress. N691
• Ogress captured and reformed. R9.3
• Ogress-wife orders raja to turn out his six wives. S413.1
• Adoption by suckling. Ogress who suckles hero claims him as her son. T671
• Lending and repaying: progressively worse (or better) bargain. Z41.5
• Ladder as symbol of upward progress. Z139.7