μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general S. Am. Indian (Tehuelche): Alexander Lat. Am. 336.
Within the index

Filed under Animal (monster) killed from within.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man kills giant bear by crawling inside and cutting his way out
Filed beside it
Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.)Animal tricked into seizing hollow log. Man reaches through and pulls animal's heart out

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