At the ogre's house

Bibliographic Data

ID8933758
AuthorsChristine Goldberg (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume115
Issue3
Pages309-320
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFolklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587042000284284
OpenAlexW1975833406
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The female helper identified in two recent articles in this journal is a figure in a stereotyped scene that exists in a number of different folktales. When the hero arrives at the ogre's house, this woman warns him that when the ogre returns, he will eat him. Then she protects the hero by hiding him. When the ogre comes in, he smells the human, but the woman (his wife, daughter, grandmother, or captive) prevents him from finding the visitor. Notes AT=International tale type in Aarne and Thompson (). KHM=Grimm Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen (see Grimm and Grimm ). The woman blames the characteristic odour on a bone dropped by a raven in Thompson (, 11 and 140) and Afanas'ev (, 300). In two other tales from this Russian collection (Afanas'ev , 239 and 264), the villain maintains that not even the hero Ivan's bones, having been brought by a raven, could possibly be there

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