ATU 462 The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen

ATU 462

The Outcast Queens and the Ogress Queen

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Tales Of Magic · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. 2 variants
Man on hunt falls into ogre's (witch's) power. 2 variants
Uriah letter changed. Falsified order of execution. A messenger is sent with a letter ordering the recipient to kill the bearer. On the way the letter is changed so that the bearer is honored. 2 variants
Only the youngest of group of imprisoned women refuses to eat her newborn child. 2 variants
Cast-off wife abandoned in pit. (Cf. T581.2.) 2 variants
Abandoned queen blinded. 2 variants
La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Witch entices men with offers of love and then deserts or destroys them. 1 variant
Man persecuted by a rakshasa in form of beautiful wench. 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.