μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 14references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 11
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 8, Rotunda
  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. IV 27, 275, *Neuman
  • BabylonianSpence 87
  • India*Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 193, VI 154 n. 3, Keith 173
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 261
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 443
  • MarquesasHandy 137
  • S. Am. Indian (Bakairi)Alexander Lat. Am. 313.
  • general *Frazer Old Testament III 82
  • general *H. Schmidt Jona 127f.
  • general *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18
  • general Clouston Tales I 403ff. – Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia): Dixon 69, De Vries's list No. 211
Within the index

Filed under Person (animal) swallowed without killing.

1 finer motif beneath it
Fish swallows ship
Filed beside it
Men swallow menAnimals swallow animalsAnimal swallows man (not fatally)Giant swallows manAll-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. insideSerpent swallows man

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