Toothed private parts. (Cf. F547.3.3.) — Mythoi

Motif

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

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F547.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 309 n. 115.

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable sexual organs.

1 finer motif beneath it

Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina

Filed beside it

Hermaphrodite. Person with both male and female sexual organs Extraordinary penis Extraordinary clitoris Extraordinary vagina. (Cf. F547.1.1.) Remarkable pubic hairs Enormous testicles

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)

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