orco
demonic underworld Italian single tradition · 1
Orco is a kind of monster found in Italian fairy-tales. It feeds on human flesh. The French ogre and the Italian orco are exactly the same sort of creature.
When
- First attested
- 1600 CE
- Attested period
- 1600 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Italian fairy tales.
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Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“particularly in Italian where orco refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh. The French word ogre (appearing first in Charles Perrault's fairy-tales) may have come from variant forms of this word, orgo or ogro; in any case, the French ogre and the Italian orco are exactly the same sort of creature.”
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