| 327 | The Children and the Ogre | I. Arrival at Ogre's House.
(a) Children are abandoned by poor parents in a wood
(b) but they find their way back by cloth shreds or pebbles that they have dropped;
(c) the third time birds eat their breadcrumbs, or grain clue and
(d) they wander until they come to a gingerbread house which belongs to a witch; or
(e) a very small hero (thumbling) and his brothers stay at night at the ogre's house; or
(f) the ogre carries the child home in a sack;
(g) the child substitutes a stone in the sack twice but is finally captured.
II. The Ogre Deceived. The ogre smells human flesh and has the children imprisoned and fattened.
(b) When his finger is to be cut to test his fatness the hero sticks out a bone or piece of wood.
(c) The exchange of caps, (d) the ogre's wife or child burned in his own oven (Type 1121), or
(e) the hero by singing induces the ogre to free them, or
(f) the hero to be hanged feigns ignorance and has ogre show him how, or
(g) hero feigns inability to sleep until ogre brings certain objects and escapes while ogre hunts the object.
III. Escape. (a) The children are carried across the water by ducks (or angels), or
(b) they throw back magic objects which become obstacles in the ogre's path, or
(c) they transform themselves, or (d) the ogre (ogress) tries to drink the pond empty and bursts, or
(e) the ogre is misdirected and loses them. | , 3227C, 327, 327A, 327B, 327F, 327G | , G412.1.1., G512.3.2.1.3.2.1., G512.3.2.3.2., G526., G61., G82., G82.1.1.1.1., K1611., K1832., K335.1.2.1.1.2.1., R135., R135.1.1., S321. |