All 50 Uses
ogre
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- All the ogres and secret helpers of our nursery are there, all the magic of childhood.†
p. 12.6 *
- For example, the Hottentots describe an ogre that has been occasionally encountered among the scrubs and dunes.†
p. 64.6
- Incestuous libido and patricidal destrudo are thence reflected back against the individual and his society in forms suggesting threats of violence and fancied dangerous delight—not only as ogres but also as sirens of mysteriously seductive, nostalgic beauty.†
p. 65.3
- One more example, to illustrate the libidinous association of the dangerous impish ogre with the principle of seduction, is Dyedushka Vodyanoy, the Russian "Water Grandfather."†
p. 66.1
- But when he had reached the middle of the crossing, the ogre who inhabited that wilderness thought, "I will make these men throw away the water they took."†
p. 68.6
- And when the caravan and the demon company drew aside to let each other pass, the ogre greeted the leader in a friendly manner.†
p. 68.9
- The ogre: "Do you see that dark green streak of woods?†
p. 69.1
- The ogre went his way, and when out of sight, returned again to his own city of ogres.†
p. 69.4
- The ogre went his way, and when out of sight, returned again to his own city of ogres.†
p. 69.4
- Now that caravan leader, out of his own foolishness, took the advice of the ogre, broke the chatties, and caused the carts to move forward.†
p. 69.5
- At midnight the ogres approached from the city of ogres, slew the oxen and men, every one, devoured their flesh, leaving only the bare bones, and, having so done, departed.†
p. 69.6
- At midnight the ogres approached from the city of ogres, slew the oxen and men, every one, devoured their flesh, leaving only the bare bones, and, having so done, departed.†
p. 69.6
- "Sir prince, do not enter this forest," they said; "an ogre lives here, named Sticky-hair; he kills every man he sees."†
p. 69.9
- When he reached the heart of it, the ogre showed himself.†
p. 70.1
- The ogre had increased his stature to the height of a palm tree; he had created for himself a head as big as a summer house with bell-shaped pinnacle, eyes as big as alms bowls, two tusks as big as giant bulbs or buds; he had the beak of a hawk; his belly was covered with blotches; his hands and feet were dark green.†
p. 70.1
- "Ogre," said he, "I knew what I was about when I entered this forest.†
p. 70.2
- Having thus threatened the ogre, the young prince fitted to his bow an arrow steeped in deadly poison and let fly.†
p. 70.3
- It stuck right in the ogre's hair.†
p. 70.3
- All stuck right to the ogre's hair.†
p. 70.4
- The ogre shook off every one of those arrows, letting them fall right at his feet, and approached the young prince.†
p. 70.4
- Prince Five-weapons threatened the ogre a second time, and drawing his sword, delivered a masterly blow.†
p. 70.4
- The sword, thirty-three inches long, stuck right to the ogre's hair.†
p. 70.5
- When he saw that the club had stuck, he said: "Master ogre, you have never heard of me before.†
p. 70.5
- Having thus made known his determination, with a yell he struck the ogre with his right hand.†
p. 70.7
- His hand stuck right to the ogre's hair.†
p. 70.7
- That also stuck right to the ogre's hair.†
p. 70.8
- Prince Five-weapons, snared five times, stuck fast in five places, dangled from the ogre's body.†
p. 72.1
- As for the ogre, he thought: This is some lion of a man, some man of noble birth—no mere man!†
p. 72.1
- For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neither to tremble nor to quake!†
p. 72.1
- Ogre, why should I be afraid?†
p. 72.2
- What this youth says is true," thought the ogre, terrified with the fear of death.†
p. 72.9
- Having admonished the ogre to be heedful, the youth departed from the forest, and at the mouth of the forest told his story to human beings; then went his way.'†
p. 73.1
- They are preliminary embodiments of the dangerous aspect of the presence, corresponding to the mythological ogres that bound the conventional world, or to the two rows of teeth of the whale.†
p. 77.4
- THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE, when all the barriers and ogres have been overcome, is commonly represented as a mystical marriage of the triumphant hero-soul with the Queen Goddess of the World.†
p. 91.1
- Who and where are his ogres?†
p. 101.6
- THE BOW OF GOD'S WRATH is bent, and the Arrow made ready on the String; and Justice bends the Arrow at your Heart, and strains the Bow; and it is nothing but the mere Pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any Promise or Obligation at all, that keeps the Arrow one Moment from being made drunk with your Blood.... With these words Jonathan Edwards threatened the hearts of his New England congregation by disclosing to them, unmitigated, the ogre aspect of the father.†
p. 105.5
- For the ogre aspect of the father is a reflex of the victim's own ego—derived from the sensational nursery scene that has been left behind, but projected before; and the fixating idolatry of that pedagogical nonthing is itself the fault that keeps one steeped in a sense of sin, sealing the potentially adult spirit from a better balanced, more realistic view of the father, and therewith of the world.†
p. 107.7
- Therewith, the center of belief is transferred outside of the bedeviling god's tight scaly ring, and the dreadful ogres dissolve.†
p. 110.2
- This archetypal nightmare of the ogre father is made actual in the ordeals of primitive initiation.†
p. 116.7
- They enact the ogre father, and then reveal themselves to be the feeding mother too.†
p. 133.6
- The ogre breaks us, but the hero, the fit candidate, undergoes the initiation "like a man"; and behold, it was the father: we in Him and He in us.†
p. 137.8
- We are taken from the mother, chewed into fragments, and assimilated to the world-annihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously reborn, we are more than we were.†
p. 138.1
- "My death," said a certain ogre, "is far from here and hard to find, on the wide ocean.†
p. 150.2
- When in this mood even the highest gods appear as malignant, life-hoarding ogres, and the hero who deceives, slays, or appeases them is honored as the savior of the world.†
p. 155.8
- As in the stories of the cannibal ogresses, the fearfulness of this loss of personal individuation can be the whole burden of the transcendental experience for unqualified souls.†
p. 188.4
- Briefly: the ogre-tyrant is the champion of the prodigious fact, the hero the champion of creative life.†
p. 290.1
- Kut-o-yis, or "Blood Clot Boy," when he had been taken from the pot and had grown to manhood in a day, slew the murderous son-in-law of his foster parents, then proceeded against the ogres of the countryside.†
p. 290.4
- They seem to represent an absolute refusal, on the part of the parent ogre, to permit life to go its way; nevertheless, when a fit candidate appears, no task in the world is beyond his skill.†
p. 295.7
- For the congregation of Jonathan Edwards he became a veritable ogre.†
p. 297.7
- The emperor becomes the tyrant ogre (Herod-Nimrod), the usurper from whom the world is now to be saved.†
p. 299.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(ogre) a frightening giant from fairy tales, especially one who eats people; or a cruel or terrifying person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)