μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hostile hound killed by reaching through hollow log in its jaws – and tearing heart out.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B17.1.2.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Hostile dog (hound).

1 finer motif beneath it
Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart)
Filed beside it
Bloodhounds decapitate victim Transformed man as hostile dog

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