Victim kills swallower from within

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Victim kills swallower from within.

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

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

Irish mythCross
GreekFox 86
IndiaThompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 291
ChineseGraham
JapaneseIkeda
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 321 n. 159
AfricaWerner African 199.
general Herbert III 196
general Oesterley No. 251

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary swallowings.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Person (animal) swallowed without killing Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)Person swallowed and disgorged Victim speaks from swallower's body One animal jumps through body of another Monster swallows people through anus Swallowed person becomes bald Swallowed person bereft of clothing Tent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying it Extraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous

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