Man sinks into earth

Motif

Man sinks into earth.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. · view the constellation · filed as F942

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

U.S.Baughman
Jewish*Neuman
IndiaThompson-Balys
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 372, Rasmussen III 185, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 182
West IndiesFlowers 438.

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ground opens and swallows up person Ground cut from under adversary Earth opens at man's command

Filed beside it

Building sinks into earth Sinking into mud in duel City sinks in the sea Person gradually submerged by sea Ground opens and swallows forest Object sinks into earth Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance – miscellaneous

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