μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 132, 437
  • Tuamotu ibid 503
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 322 n. 159b.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary swallowings.

1 finer motif beneath it
Swallowed person becomes boneless
Filed beside it
Person (animal) swallowed without killing Victim kills swallower from within 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 bereft of clothing Tent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying it Extraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61 Resuscitation by music Resuscitation by breathing on corpse Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" Door (gate) entrance to lower world Cliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliff Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him Pot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into it Sucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victims Man with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundings Killing trees threaten hero Place and conditions of childbirth

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