μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal swallows man (not fatally).

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F911.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Persian Carnoy 302
  • Hindu Penzer IX 49.
  • general *Types 123, 333, 700
  • general Fb "kat" II 108b
  • general Saintyves Perrault 227ff.
Within the index

Filed under Person (animal) swallowed without killing.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Thumbling swallowed by animals. (Cf. F914.2.) Winged serpent as boat: passengers within Animal with men in its belly playing cards, etc Frog eats a rat, a baker, a man, and a horse
Filed beside it
Men swallow men Animals swallow animals Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man Giant swallows man All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside Serpent swallows man

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