Motif
Blinded cannibal giant threatens fugitive sailors
blinded_cannibal_giant_threatens_fugitive_sailors
A motif of the Threshold Guardian family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
-
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV BOOK THE FOURTEENTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10788-10883 confidence: high
After the flight, the blinded giant roars over Ætna, gropes through woods, curses the Greeks, and wishes for Ulysses or his companions so he can mangle and devour them.
The passage centers on a one-eyed giant deprived of sight, raging after Greeks, threatening to devour Ulysses' companions, and remembered as eating human bodies.
read in the book →