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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 25 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OGRE  , the name in

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fairy tales and folk-
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lore of a
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malignant. monstrous
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giant who lives on human flesh . The word is
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French, and occurs first in
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Charles
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Perrault's Histoires ou conies du temps passe (1697) . The first
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English use is in the
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translation of a French version of the Arabian Nights in 1713, where it is spelled hogre . Attempts have been made to connect the word with Ugri, the racial name of the
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Magyars or Hungarians, but it is
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woods .

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