Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.)

Motif

Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.)

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K952.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 302 n. 104.

Within the index

Filed under Animal (monster) killed from within.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him Ungrateful rat defecates upon head of (or kills) octopus that rescues him from sea

Filed beside it

Man transforms self to gadfly to enter giant's stomach and kill him Animal tricked into seizing hollow log. Man reaches through and pulls animal's heart out

Travels with

Dupe told he can get meat by putting hand up animal's anus: animal drags him. (Cf. K952.1, K1022.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Goat Carries the Snake over a Stream · ATU 133*1 recorded variant

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