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Victim kills swallower from within by cutting.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F912.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Mono-Alu Wheeler 55
  • New Hebrides Codrington 365
  • Cook Islands Beckwith Myth 503
  • Marquesas ibid 502
  • S. Am. Indian (Eastern Brazil) Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 434
  • Africa (Cameroon) Meinhof 60, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 176, (Basuto): Jacottet 122.
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Filed under Victim kills swallower from within.

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Victim kills swallower from within by burning Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.)

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