Wednesday, September 13, 2017 <p>There are a lot of villains in the Santan "Blinded Ogre" story below: the stepmother, obviously, who drives the boys out of the house. Then the ogre who takes one of the boys in and drinks his blood. Then a sea monster. Then villagers who blind him and throw him into a pit. This story has its more than its share both of the supernatural and the human kind of villain.&nbsp;</p> <p>Generally speaking, the Pontic repertoire has a wider spectrum of villains than of heroes or heroines. Supernatural ones include&nbsp;ogres (<em>drakoi </em>or <em>devi</em>), death (Charos), blackamoors, devils, dwarves, and Cyclopes. Whereas German ogres are an embodiment of terror and fantasy, and French ogres reign as the burher-like heads of housholds (boorish but good family providers), the Pontic&nbsp;<em>dev</em>&nbsp;is usually an unintelligent cave-man with a taste for human blood. He is inevitably massive, strong, and sometimes has a mother and a host of brothers. Some of them wear a fez.</p>