μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B784.1

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Filed under Animal lives in person's stomach.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt) 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
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Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring Means of ridding person of animal in stomach

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