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G0. Ogres. For a good discussion of the general concept and of the various kinds of ogres see Saintyves Contes de Perrault 299ff.; **Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx. – Italian: Basile Pentamerone III Nos. 1, 7, V No. 7; Africa: Werner African 242.
G10 – G399. Kinds of Ogres
G10. Cannibalism. *Types 327, 406*; BP I 115; *Cox Cinderella 499; *Saintyves Perrault 299ff.; *Penzer X 181 s.v. ”Human flesh“; *Fb ”menneskekjød“; *Freytag Am Ur-Quell N. F. I 179; *MacCulloch Childhood 279; Krause Der Ur-Quell I 1; *Cosquin Contes indiens 208; **DeCock Volkssage 64; *Laistner Rätsel der Sphinx II 87; Krappe The Modern Language Review XLIII (1948) 54ff. – Irish myth: *Cross; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 57 No. 135; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”anthropophages,“ ”diable“; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 189, 588, II 32, 407, 676, 824; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 21; Oceanic (Indonesia, Melanesia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 130ff., 227ff.; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 76ff. 83f.; Maori: Clark 100, 159; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 272; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 388; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68, (Southern Ute): Lowie JAFL XXXVII 74 No. 46; Africa: Werner African 242, (Basuto): Jacottet 8, 122, 204, 208, 258, (Angola): Chatelain 97, 103, (Fang): Einstein 65, (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 199, (Zulu): Callaway 47, 74, 142, 154, *158, 181, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413, (Kaffir): Theal 126, 139f., Kidd 225, (Benga): Nassau 227 No. 34, (Congo): Weeks 203, (Mpongwe): Nassau 72 No. 15.
G11. Kinds of cannibals.
G11.0.1. Cannibalistic god. Irish myth: Cross.
G11.0.1.1. As result of fraud, Saturn swallows stone instead of infant Jove. Irish myth: Cross.
G11.0.1.2. Father of goddess as cannibal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 141.
G11.1. Cannibal dwarfs. *Basset 1001 Contes I 190; N. A. Indian (Zuñi): Benedict II 335.
G11.2. Cannibal giant. (Cf. G82, G83, G84.) Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: Arnason Legends of Iceland (tr. Powell, London, 1864) I 122, 125, 133, *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 387; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 377.
G11.2.1. Giant devours any person who fails to do his bidding. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.3. Cannibal witch. Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 485 nn. 28, 29. – England: Baughman; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *2027B; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 6; India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney I 162, II 450; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 85, II 25, III 50f., 168f., Rink 48, 440, Holm 80, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 198, 598, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 180, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 233.
G11.4. Negro cannibal. Malone PMLA XLIII 412.
G11.5. Water cannibal. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 104; N. A. Indian (Cherokee): Alexander N. Am. 68.
G11.6. Man-eating woman. India: *Thompson-Balys; Hindu: Tawney II 616; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/249, 1110, z-G. 3/1276); Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 194; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 197; Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 370; Maori: Clark 39.
G11.6.1. Female ogre changes men into tigers and eats women. Chinese: Graham.
G11.6.2. Woman who marries tiger is fed human nails regularly. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.6.3. Old woman calls beasts together to join her in feast on human flesh. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 61.
G11.6.4. Woman devours her husband. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 838; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 60ff.
G11.7. Cannibalistic king. Malone PMLA XLIII 403; Missouri French: Carrière; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 581.
G11.8. Cannibal meteor. N. A. Indian (Luiseño, Diegueño, Mohave): Kroeber JAFL XXI 224.
G11.8.1. Stars as cannibals. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 109, 111; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/931).
G11.9. Ogre schoolmaster. Girl sees schoolmaster eat human flesh. Refuses to tell him what she saw. He persecutes her. *Cosquin Contes indiens 112ff.
G11.10. Cannibalistic spirits.
G11.10.1. Cannibalistic spirits in upper world. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.11. Cannibal with extraordinary features. (Cf. G88.) India: *Thompson-Balys.
G11.11.1. Albino twins with cannibal appetite. Tonga: Gifford 192.
G11.11.2. Hairless cannibal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 344.
G11.12. Cannibal with winnowing tray and pestle. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 73.
G11.13. Gambling cannibal. Icelandic: Boberg; N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69.
G11.14. Jungle-man as cannibal. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.15. Cannibal demon. India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Alu: Wheeler 8, 44, 48, 50, 56.
G11.16. Army of cannibal monsters. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.17. Seven-mouthed cannibal ogre. India: Thompson-Balys.
G11.18. Cannibal tribe. Jewish: Neuman.
G11.18.1. Cannibal people driven from land. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 341.
G12. Transformation in order to eat own kind. Man transforms self to animal and eats men. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Mpongwe): Nassau 71 No. 15.
G13. Spiritual exaltation from eating human flesh. Penzer II 198 n. 1.
G13.1. Ritual cannibalism: corpse of hero (demigod) eaten to acquire his strength. India: Thompson-Balys.
G13.2. Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty. India: Thompson-Balys.
G15. Human being devoured daily. India: *Thompson-Balys.
G15.1. Giant eats men on New Year’s Day. India: Thompson-Balys.
G17. Ogre seduces sleeping girl in order to devour her. India: Thompson-Balys.
G18. Haunts of cannibals.
G18.1. Cannibals live at cemetery. India: Thompson-Balys.
G20. Ghouls. Persons eat corpses. Type 363; Chauvin VI 198 No. 371; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 276, 281; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 202; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 104, III 104; Africa (BaRonga): Einstein 262.
G20.1. Devil as husband eats corpses. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 369.
G21. Female eater of corpses. India: Thompson-Balys.
G23. 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. India: Thompson-Balys.
G25. Abandoned infant lives by eating corpse of murdered father. (Cf. S350.) Easter Island: Métraux Ethnology 385.
G27. Moon made to eat wife‘s corpse by mother-in-law. S. A. Indian (Viracocha): Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 550.
G30. Person becomes cannibal. MacCulloch Childhood 297. – Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 197; Maori: Clark 152; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 295, 302; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 128, 258, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 260; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 357 n. 287c.
G31. Children flee from father who turns cannibal. Cosquin RTP XXX 79.
G33. Child born as cannibal. *Type 406*; *Fb ”menneskeæder“ II 580.
G33.1. Cannibal disenchanted by overcoming it. Becomes maiden. Type 406*; Russian: Andrejev No. 406.
G34. Human child brought up by ogress becomes a man-eater. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 943.
G36. Taste of human flesh leads to habitual cannibalism. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 573.
G36.1. 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. *Type 450.
G36.2. Human blood (flesh) accidentally tasted: brings desire for human flesh. India: *Thompson-Balys.
G36.2.1. People fear that boy who eats raw birds will eat them when he grows older. Chinese: Graham.
G37. Girl seduced by brother becomes cannibal ogre. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 59.
G50 – G79. OCCASIONAL CANNIBALISM
G50. Occasional cannibalism.
G51. Person eats own flesh. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 597; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 45; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 232 No. 46.
G51.1. Person eats self up. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 186; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 304 n. 109m, (California): Gayton and Newman 92; Africa (Togo): Einstein 12f.
G55. People who eat child become supernatural. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 258, (Greenland): Rink 466.
G60. Human flesh eaten unwittingly. Penzer II 113; English: Wells 151 (Richard Coer de Lyon); Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys.
G61. Relative’s flesh eaten unwittingly. *Type 720; BP I 412ff.; *MacCulloch Childhood 283ff.; *Cosquin Études 394; *Fb ”menneskekjød“ II 579b. – Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Fox 70, 119, 120 (Prokne and Tereus, Tantalus, Thyestes); Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 573; Chinese: Graham; Japanese: Ikeda; Oceanic (Indonesia, New Zealand, Molucca): Dixon 58, 195, 229f.; Indonesian: De Vries‘s list Nos. 227, 228; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 106, 128, 160, 286, 447, Holm 43, 90, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 215, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 627, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 229; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 300 nn. 97, 98 and 340 n. 226; S. A. Indian (Baikairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 303; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 20, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 402 No. 2, 405 No. 4, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Angola): Chatelain 191 No. 24, (Thonga): Junod 217, (Fjort): Dennett 82 No. 19, (Benga): Nassau 105 No. 8, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38, 276 No. 41; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54, Remus 165 No. 34; Cape Verde Islands: Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 73 n. 3.
G61.1. Child recognizes relative‘s flesh when it is served to be eaten. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 167, 173, (Kaffir): Theal 100, (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38; American Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54.
G61.1.1. Girl avoids eating her mother’s flesh by spilling the meat and the soup in the pen. Chinese: Graham.
G61.2. Mother recognizes child‘s flesh when it is served to be eaten. India: Thompson-Balys.
G62. Murderer caused to eat victim’s flesh unwittingly. Sickens and dies. India: Thompson-Balys.
G63. Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. India: Thompson-Balys.
G64. Human flesh being cooked speaks out. India: Thompson-Balys.
G70. Occasional cannibalism – deliberate.
G70.1. Hungry seamen eat human flesh. Fb ”menneskekjød“ II 579b.
G71. Unnatural children eat parent. *Cox Cinderella 499; MacCulloch Childhood 295; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda.
G71.1. Girl attempts to eat parents but they escape. Eskimo (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 179, (Greenland): Holm 53, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 81, Rasmussen III 159.
G72. Unnatural parents eat children. MacCulloch Childhood 293ff.; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos 148, 216; Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 8 n. 2 (Zeus and Kronos); Jewish: Gaster Exempla 198f. No. 69; India: Thompson-Balys; New Zealand: Dixon 85; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 199; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 89, Rasmussen III 121, 305; N. A. Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 232 No. 46; S. A. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 31; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 99 No. 6, (Ila, Rhodesia): Smith and Dale II 413 No. 12, (Kaffir): Theal 140, (Zulu): Callaway 47, (Fang): Tessman 108, (Pangwe): Tessman 365.
G72.1. Woman plans to eat her children. *Type 450; Grimm No. 143a; BP III 151.
G72.2. Starving woman abandoned in cave eats newborn child. India: *Thompson-Balys.
G72.3. Girl child fed on infant boys‘ flesh to make her grow faster. Irish myth: *Cross.
G72.4. Voice of slain and eaten child comes from the heart of cannibal. (Cf. F911.1.) Jewish: Neuman.
G73. Girls eat their sister. Cox Cinderella 499; India: Thompson-Balys.
G73.1. Brothers eat their sister. India: *Thompson-Balys.
G73.2. Brother eats brother. Mono-Alu: Wheeler 22.
G74. Man eats friend. Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 121.
G75. Father takes his daughter to cannibal to be eaten. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 116 No. 27.
G76. Aged person eaten. Icelandic: Boberg; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 168.
G77. Husband eats wife. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 886; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 157, Rink 106; S. A. Indian (More): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 406, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 161.
G78. Cannibalism during plague. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
G78.1. Cannibalism in time of famine. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 92.
G79. Occasional cannibalism – deliberate – miscellaneous.
G79.1. Animal-wife devours her husband. India: Thompson-Balys.
G79.2. Woman eats daughter-in-law. S. A. Indian (More): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 406.
G80. Other motifs dealing with cannibals.
G81. Unwitting marriage to cannibal *Type 311; *MacCulloch Childhood 291ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 5; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Greenland): I 262; West Indies: Flowers 440.
G81.1. Cannibal marries wife by force. Chinese: Graham.
G82. Cannibal fattens victim. *Type 327, 314, *BP I 115ff.; Chauvin VII 19 No. 373D; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 9; India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 107, Holm 11; N. A. Indian (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 448 No. 8.
G82.1. Cannibal cuts captive’s finger to test fatness. *Type 327; BP I 115ff.; Fb ”slagte“, ”finger“.
G82.1.1. Captive sticks out bone instead of finger when cannibal tries to test his fatness. *Type 327; BP I 115ff.; *Fb ”hale“ I 537, ”lysepile“ II 487; Korean: Zong in-Sob 147 No. 65.
G83. Cannibal sharpens knife to kill captive. German: Grimm No. 41; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3910; Japanese: Ikeda; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270f. Nos. 82, 83.
G83.1. Ogress whets teeth to kill captive. Köhler-Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. VI 64 (to Gonzenbach No. 13); Irish myth: Cross (G153); Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8, V No. 4.
G84. Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cannibal returning home smells human flesh and makes exclamation. (Cf. G11.8.1.) *Type 327; *Fb ”kristenblod“ II 300a. – Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 29, 312 No. 67; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12; Breton: Sébillot ”chair“; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas@2 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. A. 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.
G85. Ungrateful cannibal. Eats offered food and then threatens hosts. *Jochelson JE VI 376.
G86. Cannibals cut off parts of children‘s bodies. Dickson Valentine and Orson 41 n. 41; Japanese: Ikeda.
G86.1. Cannibal ogress gives finger of one girl to her frightened sister. Chinese: Graham.
G87. Cannibal crunching human bone says noise is only eating of peas. India: Thompson-Balys.
G88. Cannibal has long tooth and long nail. Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 210 No. 31.
G88.1. Men with iron claws eat girl. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 79.
G88.2. Man-eater with two great tusks on which he hangs the carcasses of the dead. India: Thompson-Balys.
G91. Cannibalism brings madness. Fb ”menneskekjød“ II 580a.
G91.1. Man forced to eat dead father’s heart goes mad. Irish myth: Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 108.
G91.1.1. Man forced to eat dead father‘s heart struck dumb. Irish myth: *Cross.
G91.2. Cannibalism causes death. India: Thompson-Balys.
G92. Cannibal hard to lift. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 70.
G93. Cannibal breaks wind as means of attack. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 69.
G94. Cannibal’s gigantic meal.
G94.1. Ogress takes travelers out of cave and devours them one by one. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 264.
G94.2. Cannibal ogres eat daily ten men, ten women, ten children from the same tribe. Africa (Fang): Einstein 65.
G95. Old man says his arm is getting thin – indicates desire for human flesh. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 86.
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