By Kpoto demo Judex
Have you really sat down to examine the beauty behind these rare sets of mythologically represented creatures of the never time? Well, of course not. There is a simple answer to every difficult question, it's only a matter of who is solving the problem. Let's begin by the coiner for the coined word "OGRE". Since the word ogre came into wider usage in the works of Charles Perrault (1628–1703) or Marie-Catherine Jumelle de Berneville, Comtesse d' Aulnoy (1650–1705), both of whom were French authors, other reluctant sources say that the name is derived from the word Hongrois, which means Hungarian, as of western cultures referred to Hungarians as a kind of monstrosity. The word ogre is thought to have been popularized by the works of Italian author Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), who used the Neapolitan word uerco, or in standard Italian, orco. This word is documented in earlier Italian works (Fazio degli Uberti, 14th century; Luigi Pulci, 15th century; Ludovico Ariosto, 15th–16th centuries) and has even older cognates with the Latin orcus and the Old English orcnēas found in Beowulf lines 112–113, which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's Orc. All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept (as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 45). Some see the French myth of the ogre as being inspired by the real-life crimes of Gilles de Rais.
An ogre (feminine ogress) is a being usually depicted as a large, hideous, manlike monster that eats human beings. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and fiction throughout the world. They appear in many classic works of literature, and are most often described in fairy tales and folklore as eating babies.
This article uses material from the "Ogre" article on the Mythology wiki at "Wikia" and is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License." and some other unreferenced materials and gossips from movies, comics and tv dramas.
OOOOOgre?! Run for your lives!
Have you really sat down to examine the beauty behind these rare sets of mythologically represented creatures of the never time? Well, of course not. There is a simple answer to every difficult question, it's only a matter of who is solving the problem. Let's begin by the coiner for the coined word "OGRE". Since the word ogre came into wider usage in the works of Charles Perrault (1628–1703) or Marie-Catherine Jumelle de Berneville, Comtesse d' Aulnoy (1650–1705), both of whom were French authors, other reluctant sources say that the name is derived from the word Hongrois, which means Hungarian, as of western cultures referred to Hungarians as a kind of monstrosity. The word ogre is thought to have been popularized by the works of Italian author Giambattista Basile (1575–1632), who used the Neapolitan word uerco, or in standard Italian, orco. This word is documented in earlier Italian works (Fazio degli Uberti, 14th century; Luigi Pulci, 15th century; Ludovico Ariosto, 15th–16th centuries) and has even older cognates with the Latin orcus and the Old English orcnēas found in Beowulf lines 112–113, which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's Orc. All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept (as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 45). Some see the French myth of the ogre as being inspired by the real-life crimes of Gilles de Rais.
The first
appearance of the word ogre in Perrault's work occurred in his Histoires ou
Contes du temps Passé (1696). It later appeared in several of his other fairy
tales, many of which were based on the Neapolitan tales of Basile. The first
example of a female ogre being referred to as an ogress is found in his version
of Sleeping Beauty, where it is spelled ogresse. Madame d'Aulnoy first employed
the word ogre in her story L'Orangier et l'Abeille (1698), and was the first to
use the word ogree to refer to the creature's offspring.Ogres (feminine:
Ogress) are large monsters, often portrayed as cruel and hideous (as the word
denotes). Ogres are often depicted in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on
human beings, and have appeared in many classic works of literature. In art,
ogres are often depicted with a large head, abundant hair and beard, a huge
belly, and a strong body. The term is often applied in a metaphorical sense to
disgusting persons who exploit, brutalize or devour their victims.
An ogre (feminine ogress) is a being usually depicted as a large, hideous, manlike monster that eats human beings. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and fiction throughout the world. They appear in many classic works of literature, and are most often described in fairy tales and folklore as eating babies.
In visual
art, ogres are often depicted as inhumanly large and tall and having a
disproportionately large head, abundant hair, unusually colored skin, a
voracious appetite, and a strong body. Ogres are closely linked with giants and
with human cannibals in mythology. In both folklore and fiction, giants are
often given ogrish traits (such as the giants in "Jack and the Beanstalk"
and "Jack the Giant Killer", the Giant Despair in The Pilgrim's
Progress, and the jötnar of Norse mythology); while ogres may be given giantish
traits. If this is true, we really have people like that living amongst humans, can we thus say they are Ogres or Ogre-like... Hmm. You'd never know....
Famous
examples of ogres in folklore include the ogre in "Puss in Boots" and
the ogre in "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"; and in fiction, Shrek and Fiona from
Shrek. Other characters sometimes described as ogres include the title
character from "Bluebeard", the Beast from "Beauty and the
Beast", Grendel from "Beowulf", Polyphemus the Cyclops from
Homer's Odyssey, the cyclops in "Sinbad the Sailor", and the oni of
Japanese folklore.
This article uses material from the "Ogre" article on the Mythology wiki at "Wikia" and is licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License." and some other unreferenced materials and gossips from movies, comics and tv dramas.
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