μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 15references

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.

  • Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 165, 372
  • PersianCarnoy 302
  • HinduKeith 173
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Eskimo (Smith Sound)Kroeber JAFL XII 175
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 321 n. 159a
  • S. Am. Indian (Bakairi)Alexander Lat. Am. 313, (Cashinawa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 686
  • AfricaWerner African 221, (Zulu): Callaway 55, 78ff., 85ff., 325, 332, (Kaffir): Theal 84, 142, 176, (Basuto): Jacottet 72, 76, 214 Nos. 11, 12, 31
  • Jamaica*Beckwith MAFLS XVII 270 No. 82.
  • general *Types 123, 333, 450, 700
  • general *BP I 37, 40, 389
  • general *Penzer VI 154 n. 3
  • general Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18
  • general Saintyves Perrault 227ff. – Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia, Australia): Dixon 69, 296
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary swallowings.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Smith swallowed by water-monster and rescued by saintDeity lights a great fire, and all the children ogress has devoured come out of it
Filed beside it
Person (animal) swallowed without killingVictim kills swallower from withinPerson 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
Travels with
Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive
Carried in tale types

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