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G500. Ogre defeated. Icelandic: *Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 86; N. A. Indian (Zuñi): Benedict 341.
G501. Stupid ogre. *Types 311, 312, 327, 328, 330, 1000 – 1199; **Wünsche Teufel; Gaster Thespis 328; **Hackman Die Polyphemsage; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 277, Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”diable“; Italian: Basile Pentamerone II No. 3; India: *Thompson-Balys, Penzer III 33 N. 3, 34 n.; Chinese: Werner 211; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 51, 376; German New Guinea: Dixon 133ff.; N. A. Indian: Thompson Tales 351f. nn. 268, 268a, 270a, 270b, 271, 271b, (Kaska): Teit JAFL XXX 445, (California): Gayton and Newman 69. For incidents connected with the stupid ogre see G500 – G599, besides the many cases of deception scattered throughout chapter K.
G510. Ogre killed, maimed, or captured. India: Thompson-Balys.
G510.1. Defeated giant gives his daughter to victor. (Cf. G512.0.3.) India: Thompson-Balys.
G510.2. Secrets forced from overpowered monster. (Cf. G515.) India: Thompson-Balys.
G510.3. Defeated giant becomes friend and helper of victor. India: Thompson-Balys.
G510.4. Hero overcomes devastating animal. Icelandic: Þiðriks saga II 125ff., 135 – 38; India: Thompson-Balys.
G510.5. Ogress with knife tail defeated by hunter. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 160, III 151, Rink 160.
G511. Ogre blinded. **Hackman die Polyphemsage; Gaster Thespis 334; Icelandic: *Boberg.
G511.1. One-eyed giant (ogre) blinded (and killed) by arrow. Irish myth: Cross.
G512. Ogre killed. *Type 328; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 59 No. 140; India: *Thompson-Balys; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 13/249); Eskimo (Greenland): Rink 107, 138; West Indies: Flowers 454.
G512.0.1. Hero kills trouble-making evil strong men. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.0.2. Ogre’s daughter killed together with her father. Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga XVII 1, XVIII 7, Boberg.
G512.0.3. Hero killing an ogress gains her adopted daughter for his wife. (Cf. G510.1.) India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.1. Ogre killed with knife (sword). Type 327***; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham.
G512.1.1. Giant killed with magic knife. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”géant“.
G512.1.2. Ogre decapitated. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.1.2.1. Ogre’s head and hands cut off and hung above city gate. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.2. Ogre stoned to death. English: Wells 117 (Sir Torrent of Portyngale).
G512.3. Ogre burned to death. Spanish: Espinosa Jr. No. 81; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 141, 195, 445; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 353 n. 274, (California): Gayton and Newman 70; Africa (Fang): Trilles 253, (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 57.
G512.3.1. Ogre killed by throwing hot stones (metal) into his throat. Oceanic (New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii, Melanesia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Polynesia): Dixon 61, 63, 69, 86, 133 n. 6; Maori: Beckwith Myth 196; Tahiti: ibid. 197 n. 21 and ch. 13 passim; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 324 n. 167, 353 n. 274, (California): Gayton and Newman 70; Africa (Congo): Weeks 203 No. 1, (Fang): Tessman 150, (Boloki): Weeks Congo 203.
G512.3.2. Ogre burned in his own oven. *Type 327; *Cosquin RTP XXV 1, 65, 126 (= Études 349ff.); Saintyves Perrault 277ff.; Missouri French: Carrière; Am. Negro (Georgia): Harris Nights 314 No. 54; India: Thompson-Balys; Filipino: Fansler MAFLS XII 442; Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 190 No. 9; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83.
G512.3.2.1. Ogre‘s wife (daughter) burned in his own oven. *Types 327, 327*; **Cosquin Études 349ff. (= RTP XXV 1ff.); Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 172; Finnish-Swedish: Hackman FFC VI No. *327C; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nos. *327C, 327D; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 4; India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 113 No. 8; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 280 No. 98.
G512.3.3. Grass as fuel for burning ogre. N. A. Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 79.
G512.3.4. Jinn falls into cauldron of boiling oil, thinking it is food. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.4. Ogre persuaded to go into hole: buried alive. Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 8.
G512.5. Ogre killed by burning external soul.
G512.5.1. Ogre killed by burning feather containing his life. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.6. Giant killed by cutting his foot (feet) off. Icelandic: *Boberg.
G512.6.1. Giant’s (ogre‘s) arm pulled (cut) off by defender of castle (house). Irish myth: Cross.
G512.7. Backbone of ogre’s old mother broken. Icelandic: *Boberg.
G512.8. Ogre killed by striking.
G512.8.1. Ogre killed by striking with club. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.8.2. Ogre killed by striking with stones. India: Thompson-Balys.
G512.8.3. Boy sends magic spear against six-headed ogre and slays him. (Cf. B11.11.) Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 104.
G512.8.4. Ogre whipped to death. Eskimo (Greenland): Holm 14.
G512.9. Animal kills ogre. (Cf. B524.)
G512.9.1. Ogre killed by helpful dogs. Africa: Biblioteca Africana IV 60.
G512.9.2. Ogre torn to pieces by birds. Africa (Wachaga): Gutman 95.
G512.10. Ogre killed by lightning. Africa (Fang): Trilles 164.
G512.11. Ogre drowned. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule (G519.4); Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1110, z-G. 13/249); Hawaii: Beckwith 174.
G513. Ogre killed and resuscitated so as to be of help to hero. India: Thompson-Balys.
G513.1. Grateful ogre resuscitates his benefactor. India: Thompson-Balys.
G514. Ogre captured. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys.
G514.0.1. Demon must bring treasure to those who have released him. India: Thompson-Balys.
G514.1. Ogre trapped in box (cage). *Type 328; Köhler-Bolte I 306; Missouri French: Carrière; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”boite“; Indonesia: De Vries‘s list No. 244; Japanese: Ikeda; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 359ff.
G514.2. Ogre imprisoned in his own house. Type 1167*.
G514.2.1. Ogre imprisoned in cave. India: Thompson-Balys.
G514.3. Ogre caught in noose and killed. New Zealand: Dixon 61, Beckwith 266; Hawaii: Beckwith 174.
G514.4. Ogre captured while transformed to animal. Missouri French: Carrière; Chinese: Werner 359.
G514.5. Ogre tied to rock. Tuamotu: Beckwith Myth 268.
G514.5.1. Hero pegs ogress to boulder. India: Thompson-Balys.
G514.6. Ogresses caught in flood of lava. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 174.
G514.7. Ogre captured with decoy smeared with tar. He is then killed and thrown into water. Africa (Duala): Lederbogen Fables 60, 74.
G514.8. Ogre captured by animal.
G514.8.1. Ogre captured by tortoise. Africa (Fang): Tessman 16.
G515. Holy men keep devils under control. India: Thompson-Balys.
G519. Ogre killed through other tricks.
G519.1. Ogre’s wife killed through other tricks. Type 1122.
G519.1.1. Faithful hound kills ogre‘s wife. Irish myth: Cross.
G519.1.2. Man pretends to cut toenails of cannibal woman: kills her. Eskimo (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 190.
G519.1.3. Ogress lured in bridal bed and killed. Icelandic: Boberg.
G519.1.4. Ogress tricked into falling into boiling spring. Maori: Beckwith Myth 196.
G519.2. Ogre killed with his own iron bar. Icelandic: *Boberg.
G519.3. Cliff ogre thrown as food to his children. N. A. Indian (Zuñi): Benedict 335.
G519.4. Ogre killed by blades falling in his food. India: Thompson-Balys.
G519.5. Giant ogre tricked into running round a tree the branches of which catch the strokes of his iron bar, until he falls down dead. Icelandic: Boberg.
G520. Ogre deceived into self-injury. *Type 328; N. A. Indian: Thompson CColl II 359.
G521. Ogre made drunk and overcome. *BP III 106; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 32f.; Gaster Thespis 328; Japanese: Anesaki 306; Africa (Yoruba): Ellis 258 No. 1.
G522. Ogre persuaded to drink pond dry bursts. *Type 327; BP I 115; India: Thompson-Balys.
G522.1. Ogre drinks till he bursts – turns into fog. Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen III 104; Koryak: Jochelson JE VI 141.
G523. Ogre kills self when he sees crumbs lying on his belly. Indonesia: De Vries’s list No. 243.
G524. Ogre deceived into stabbing himself. He imitates the hero who has stabbed a bag of blood. Fb ”mave“ II 565; S. A. Indian (Amazon): Alexander Lat. Am. 300; Missouri French: Carrière.
G524.1. Ogre deceived into hanging himself. Chinese: Graham; Africa (Masai): Fuchs Sagen, Mythen, und Sitten der Masai (Jena, 1910) 21ff. No. 4.
G525. Sea people give the ogre brandy (tar). Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 62**; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 47 No. 68.
G525.1. Witch wishes to have as pretty teeth as man: drinks boiling oil. India: Thompson-Balys.
G526. Ogre deceived by feigned ignorance of hero. Hero must be shown how to get into oven (or the like). Ogre shows him and permits himself to be burnt. *Type 327; *Cosquin RTP XXV 1, 65, 126; Penzer I 157 n. 2, VII 123, 263; Saintyves Perrault 276; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesian: De Vries‘s list No. 244; Africa (Benga): Nassau 121ff. No. 12, (Zanzibar): Bateman 187 No. 9.
G527. Giant killed by his own bucket of death water; captive princess tells him to wash. India: Thompson-Balys.
G528. Stupid ogre duped into cutting off his own buttocks. India: Thompson-Balys.
G530. Ogre’s relative aids hero.
G530.1. Help from ogre’s wife (mistress). *Types 302, 461; *Aarne FFC XXIII 160; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”ogresse“; India: *Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 325 n. 171.
G530.1.1. Giant overcome and slain when his wife binds his hair to posts. Irish myth: *Cross.
G530.2. Help from ogre‘s daughter (or son). (Cf. G455.) *Type 975**; **Aarne FFC XXIII 160f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 54, *Boberg; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 9, V No. 4; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 109 n. 4; India: *Thompson-Balys; Mono-Alu: Wheeler 8f., 31, 44ff., 48; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 325 n. 171; S. A. Indian (Ceuici): Alexander Lat. Am. 303; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 49, (Ekoi): Talbot 7.
G530.3. Help from ogre‘s mother. *Aarne FFC XXIII 158; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 86; India: *Thompson-Balys; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86.
G530.4. Help from ogre‘s grandmother. *Type 812; India: Thompson-Balys.
G530.5. Help from old woman in ogre’s house. India: Thompson-Balys.
G530.6. Ogre‘s maidservant as helper. Chinese: Graham.
G532. Hero hidden and ogre deceived by his wife (daughter) when he says that he smells human blood. *Type 327, 425, 461, 480; *Aarne FFC XXIII 161; Tegethoff 44; *BP I 289; *Fb ”fugl“ I 380; *Saintyves Perrault 303ff.; Roberts 219. – India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham; Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XXII 16, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 203, (Greenland): Rink 218; Africa (Zanzibar): Bateman 133, (Basuto): Jacottet 206 No. 30, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 124 No. 22.
G534. Ogre tells wife how people may evade his power. Chinese: Graham.
G535. Captive woman in ogre’s house helps hero. Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys.
G537. Ogre defeated with divine help.
G537.1. Ogre defeated with help of goddess. India: Thompson-Balys.
G550. Rescue from ogre. *Types 311, 312, 313, 314, 590; Icelandic: *Boberg; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. ”Barbe-bleu“; Missouri French: Carrière; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 304 No. 30; Indonesia: Dixon 227; Africa (Kaffir): Theal 83; North Africa: *Saintyves Perrault 267; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83, 273 No. 86.
G551. Rescue from ogre by relative.
G551.1. Rescue of sister from ogre by brother. *Type 312; Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII (1931) 99ff., Rheinisches Museum f. Philologie N. F. LXXX 114ff. – Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *454; Eskimo (W. Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 195; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86; Africa (Zulu): Callaway 146, (Kaffir): Theal 134, (Hottentot): Bleek 62 No. 27.
G551.2. Rescue of sister from ogre by another sister. *Type 311; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 103 No. 7.
G551.3. Rescue of children from ogre by brother. *Type 327*; Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 233 No. 4; Jamaica: Beckwith XVII 271 No. 83.
G551.3.1. Rescue of children from giant (ogre) by hero (skillful companions). Irish myth: Cross.
G551.4. One brother rescues another from ogre. Type 303; German: Grimm Nos. 60, 85; India: *Thompson-Balys.
G551.4.1. One foster brother rescues another from ogre. Type 303; Icelandic: *Boberg.
G551.5. Cannibal is killed by his wife’s relatives. Eskimo (Central): Boas RBAE VI 633.
G552. Rescue from ogre by helpful animals. *Type 312; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen II 85; Africa (Kaffir): Kidd 226 No. 1, (Zulu): Callaway 147; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 274 No. 86.
G555. Rescue from ogre by means of singing. *Type 327; Jamaica: Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 83.
G556. Recognition of captive‘s voice brings about rescue from ogre. Usually captive sings in the bag. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 64, 134, (Zulu): Callaway 75; Jamaica: *Beckwith MAFLS XVII 273 No. 85.
G560. Ogre deceived into releasing prisoner.
G561. Ogre tricked into carrying his prisoners home in bag on his own back. *Types 311, 1132; Chauvin VI 30 No. 201; Africa (Congo): Weeks 202 No. 1, 212 No. 7.
G570. Ogre overawed. *Types 1145 – 1154; Icelandic: Boberg; India: Thompson-Balys; Missouri French: Carrière.
G571. Oaths (abusive speeches) drive ogres away. Fb ”bande“ IV 24a.
G572. Ogre overawed by trick. India: *Thompson-Balys.
G572.1. Ogre deceived by throwing burning oil instead of spittle on him. India: Thompson-Balys.
G572.2. Ogre deceived by showing sharp knife or sword for nose or tongue. India: Thompson-Balys.
G580. Ogre otherwise subdued.
G581. Ogres chased away by fire. *Chauvin VII 82 No. 373bis n. 2.
G582. Giants appeased by feeding them. *Type 531; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 12.
G582.1. Demons bribed with food. India: Thompson-Balys.
G583. Demons coerced by tabus of druids. Irish myth: Cross.
G584. Ogre polluting the wells driven away by shooting. Icelandic: Boberg.
G585. Ogre tortured by not being allowed to sleep. Eskimo (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 28.
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