Amm Embrere
Zaghawa · numen · Zaghawa traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Amm Embrere is a named ogress of the Zaghawa oral-tale repertoire recorded by Marie-Jose and Joseph Tubiana. As a female member of the corpus's company of ogres and horned bush-spirits, her appetite is turned upon children, and her stories share the repertoire's governing pattern in which the weak survive the devourer through wit rather than strength.
Domains
- wilderness
Powers
- preys upon children
Sources
- Amm Embrere is a named female ogre-figure of the Zaghawa oral-tale repertoire collected by Marie-Jose and Joseph Tubiana.: M.-J. & J. Tubiana, Contes zaghawa du Tchad: trente-sept contes et deux legendes (1961; repr. L'Harmattan, 2004), index of proper names. (primary)
- The corpus's ogres and horned bush-spirits are chiefly concerned with devouring children, a menace overcome in the tales by cunning.: M.-J. & J. Tubiana, Contes zaghawa du Tchad (1961; repr. 2004), comparative notes. (primary)