Person swallowed and disgorged

Motif

Person swallowed and disgorged.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F914

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIILXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom

Scholars’ trail — 9references

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
IcelandicBoberg
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 11
BabylonianSpence 87
IndiaThompson-Balys
IndonesiaDe Vries's list No. 211
West IndiesFlowers 436.
general *Frazer Old Testament III 82
general *H. Schmidt Jona 127f.

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary swallowings.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely Buffalo sucks hero with water it is drinking and throws him up again in game of hide-and-seek. (Cf. F911.3.1.)Tigress swallows abandoned baby again and again, but it comes out from behind

Filed beside it

Person (animal) swallowed without killing Victim kills swallower from within Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)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

Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.)

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