μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal tricked into seizing hollow log. Man reaches through and pulls animal's heart out.

Deceptions. · Killing or maiming by deception. · Various kinds of treacherous murder. · view the constellation · filed as K952.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Animal (monster) killed from within.

Filed beside it
Ungrateful river passenger kills carrier from within. Crawls inside during the passage. (Porcupine and buffalo.) Man transforms self to gadfly to enter giant's stomach and kill him

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