Animal (monster) killed from within

Motif

Animal (monster) killed from within.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
Cook IslandsBeckwith Myth 267
TongaGifford 79, 83
Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 438, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 538
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 321 n. 159
Africa (Benga)Nassau 206 No. 32. See also all references to F912.

Within the index

Filed under Various kinds of treacherous murder.

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

Filed beside it

Murder by choking Murder by squeezing Murder by burning Murder by destroying external soul Murder by blinding Murder by drowning. (Cf. K926.)Other kinds of treacherous murder

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