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Motif

Swallowed person becomes bald.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary swallowings. · view the constellation · filed as F921

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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 myth*Cross
  • JewishNeuman
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 132, 437
  • Tuamotuibid 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 killingVictim kills swallower from withinVictims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)Person swallowed and disgorgedVictim speaks from swallower's bodyOne animal jumps through body of anotherMonster swallows people through anusSwallowed person bereft of clothingTent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying itExtraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Door (gate) entrance to lower worldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsKilling trees threaten heroPlace and conditions of childbirth

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