Tightening belt to counteract hunger: when loosened person falls dead — Mythoi

Motif

Tightening belt to counteract hunger: when loosened person falls dead.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1076

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Other extraordinary events.

Filed beside it

Sunbeam as support Dice game that lasts for nine years Extraordinary occurrences connected with shoes Man carries extraordinary luggage Man washes clothes blindfolded Extraordinary flights through air Extraordinary descent into ocean Creation of a person by cooperation of skillful men Objects go journeying together Ship wrapped with feather-beds and canvass and pitched (so as to save it) Person walks unceasingly for year Person lives without food or drink for a year (or more) Person concealed in another's body Disintegration: man eats himself up or dismembers himself Hand from heaven writes on wall Object thrown from heaven

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