ogresses

In several of the folk-tales the Ant-Help occurs in the performance of the tasks, and in Apuleius the successive visits to Juno and Ceres evidently represent the visits to the Queen-mother's sisters, often known as ogresses, found in Dasent, Basile, and in Grimm 88.

Europa's Fairy Book Joseph Jacobs 1885

It was she who had caused the disappearance of the courtiers, for which no one could account, by eating them during the night, and she hoped to get rid of all the people in the country, and then to fill the land with ogres and ogresses like herself.

The Crimson Fairy Book 2003

If ever a man strayed into Witchland the ogresses used to eat him up, and this old witch thought she would like to catch a man for supper, and that is why she had been sobbing and crying in hopes that someone out of pity might come to her rescue.

The Olive Fairy Book 2003

The Ogre had seven daughters, all little children, and these young ogresses had all of them very fine complexions, because they used to eat fresh meat like their father; but they had little gray eyes, quite round, hooked noses, and very long sharp teeth, standing at a good distance from each other.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

About the reign of James the First, the three harmless schallop-shells were changed by Edmund Gibbon esq. into three ogresses, or female cannibals, with a design of stigmatizing three ladies, his kinswomen, who had provoked him by an unjust law-suit.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

Oops-she would be less impressed by Nada's inhalation, because ogresses were justifiably proud of their ugliness.

Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

To be brief, the poor girl wandered about six days, and met all six of the ogresses, who treated her in the same way.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

So he crept softly out of bed, took off his brothers 'nightcaps and his own, and stole over to the bed where the young ogresses lay.

Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall

These young ogresses all slept together in one large bed, and every one of them had a crown of gold on her head.

Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall

"We are seven sisters, all ogresses, and the worst of all is your mother-in-law; look out for her!"

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane