Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body

Motif

Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B784.1.4

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

Eng. Baughman.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

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