μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F547.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Marquesas Handy 100
  • Tuamotu Beckwith Myth 289
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 305, Holm 87
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 309 n. 115, Hatt Asiatic Influences 85ff., (California): Gayton and Newman 72.
Within the index

Filed under Toothed private parts. (Cf. F547.3.3.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Extraordinary vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) Saw in vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.)

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “husbands” · wander