μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person swallowed and disgorged.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11
  • Babylonian Spence 87
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia De Vries's list No. 211
  • West Indies Flowers 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.)

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