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ogress
▪ I. ogress1 (ˈəʊgrɪs) Also 8 hogress. [a. F. ogresse, fem. of ogre: see -ess1.] A female ogre.1713 [see ogre]. 1789 Gibbon Autobiog. (1854) 6 Three Ogresses, or female cannibals. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge ix, Like some fair ogress who had set a trap and was watching for a nibble from a plump young t... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Son of the Ogress
In Western (French) works, she may be translated as ogresse or ogress. Lastly, the Teriel, enraged, says she will let her ogress daughters devour her. wikipedia.org
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The Ogress and the Orphans
Reception The Ogress and the Orphans is a New York Times Best Seller. Deeply moving and often hilarious, The Ogress and the Orphans will encourage readers to live by the Ogress's adage: 'The more you give, the more you have wikipedia.org
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How does the old norse kenning 'nausta blakks hlé-mána gífrs drífu gim-slöngvir' break down into 'warrior' The 11th century icelandic skald Þórðr Sjáreksson wrote this kenning, quoted from wikipedia: > nausta blakks ...
_gífr_ seems to mean literally “witch, hag” ( _A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic_ , p. 165), hence “ogress” in Wikipedia, whereas DuBois takes it in
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Byatta
He fathered two sons by a floral ogress from Popa district. He and a girl named Me Wunna on the mountain (legend says she is a floral ogress living on the mountain) fell in love with each other and begot two sons wikipedia.org
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Don Joseph Pear
He then went to an ogress and convinced her it was time to divide the gold and silver. Then he got to the ogress's castle, told her the horsemen were coming to kill them, and suggested they hide in the well. wikipedia.org
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Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa
He saw an ogress (drakaina) approach and call Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa to throw down her hair; the ogress climbed it, ate and drank with Anthousa Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa hid him from the ogress, who would have eaten him, and as soon as the ogress left the tower the next morning, they sealed wikipedia.org
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Phra Rod Meree
The twelve daughters are rescued by an ogress (yaksha) in disguise who promises to take care about them as her own daughters. There he falls in love with the ogress' daughter, Meree. wikipedia.org
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Nevinbimbaau
Some descriptions call her an ogress while others seem to speak of her as simply a female figure. Deacon, the ogress Nevinbumbaau is the wife of Temes Malau; their son is Mansip. wikipedia.org
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Gullkársljóð
The ogress arrives in a green cloak and promises to make Æsa healthy. Although Æsa refuses the ogress's gifts, the ogress succeeds in leaving a splinter in Æsa's room; this turns into a knife on which Gullkár cuts himself wikipedia.org
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Petrosinella
The ogress takes Petrosinella by her hair and locks her in a tower deep in the woods with only a single window; the ogress relies on Petrosinella's extremely The first bean turns into a dog that the ogress feeds a loaf of bread. wikipedia.org
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Corvetto (fairy tale)
Corvetto went, hid under the ogres' bed, and in the night stole both the tapestries and the counterpane from the bed (causing the ogre and ogress to argue He went and talked with the ogress, offering to help her. She asked him to split wood for her. He used the axe on her neck. wikipedia.org
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Snow-White-Fire-Red
When the ogress left, he called to her, and she, thinking it was her mother (as she called the ogress), let down her hair. She told him the ogress would eat him, and so she hid him and asked the ogress how she could escape, if she wanted to. wikipedia.org
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The Dove (fairy tale)
She cursed him to fall in love with an ogress's daughter. The third day, the ogress suspected Filadoro and set the prince to empty a cistern. wikipedia.org
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Tritill, Litill, and the Birds
He went to sleep in a cave, but an ogress returned. The next day, the ogress set him to slaughter one of her fifty oxen, but she would not tell him which one. wikipedia.org
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