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Ogres | Three Ravens Bestiary #25
Let's strip away the meat of mythology and render down the fat of folklore to cook up a delicious chat all about Ogres!
The word itself was coined by Chrétien de Troyes during the 12th century, and was used to talk about the brutish Britons on the other side of the channel - but from the Ancient Egyptian "Cannibal Hymn" of Pharaoh Unas to the Greeks and Romans with Polyphemus and Orcus, the name of these things is less important than what they do.
Personifications of wild, untameable nature and warnings about totalitarian power, what's at the root of this symbol of eating people?
Did it mean…
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