Motif
Cannibal tree-dweller destroyed by concealed fire
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A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies CONTENTS / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION / ANDREW LANG.; lines 1741-1837 confidence: high
Mullyan the eagle hawk is a cannibal living apart; he kills lone hunters with an oversized spear and takes bodies to the tree house, where Moodai and Buttergab cook them and the women also eat flesh.
A cannibal who kills lone hunters and lives in a tree humpy is defeated when expert climbers secretly place a smouldering stick that burns the humpy and kills the inhabitants.
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