All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside

Motif

All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F911.6

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone V No. 8 (fish)
AfricaWerner African 198, (Zulu): Callaway 55, 78ff., 85ff., 192, 325, 332, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 139f., 176, (Mpongwe): Nassau 34, 46 Nos. 4, 6, (Basuto): Jacottet 70 No. 11, 76 No. 12, 122 No. 17, 214 No. 31, (Ibo Nigeria): Thomas 115, 203 No. 1.

Within the index

Filed under Person (animal) swallowed without killing.

1 finer motif beneath it

Toad (as man) swallows all women's earthenware

Filed beside it

Men swallow men Animals swallow animals Animal swallows man (not fatally)Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man Giant swallows man Serpent swallows man

Carried in tale types

Man Swallowed by Fish · ATU 1889G1 recorded variant

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