μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F913

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 165, 372
  • Persian Carnoy 302
  • Hindu Keith 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
  • Africa Werner 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 saint Deity lights a great fire, and all the children ogress has devoured come out of it
Filed beside it
Person (animal) swallowed without killing Victim kills swallower from within 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive
Carried in tale types

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