Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt)

Motif

Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt).

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B784.1.1

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under How animal gets into person's stomach (or body) (various methods).

Filed beside it

Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach Person swallows snake semen or egg while eating watercress Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body Swallowed blackbeetle reproduces inside person's body Girl eats plums and maggots in them; maggots multiply inside her body Scaly lizard jumps into person's mouth Salamander gets into veins through cracks in feet when person goes barefoot

wander