Fairy tales about cannibalism

fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm

English folktale closely associated with the tale of "Jack the Giant-killer"

'''Hop-o'-My-Thumb (or Hop-on-My-Thumb and similar spellings) also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet' (), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre (in other versions of this fairy tale the character is a giant). This type of fairytale, in the French oral tradition, is often combined with motifs from the type 327A, similar to Hansel and Gretel; one such tale is The Lost Children''.

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Fairy tale by Giambattista Basile (1636)

Fairy tale by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy

Norwegian folktale

Norwegian fairy story