μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary swallowings.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Men swallow menAnimals swallow animalsAnimal swallows man (not fatally)Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a manGiant swallows manAll-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. insideSerpent swallows man
Filed beside it
Victim kills swallower from withinVictims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)Person swallowed and disgorgedVictim speaks from swallower's bodyOne animal jumps through body of anotherMonster swallows people through anusSwallowed person becomes baldSwallowed person bereft of clothingTent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying itExtraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous

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