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Motif

Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1723.1

Filed across the traditions
  • U.S. *Baughman.
Within the index

Filed under Lies about swallowing. (Cf. F910.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Fish swallows a gourd fruit where people have taken refuge during rain; hawk swallows fish Lie: man swallowed by fish and later rescued alive
Filed beside it
Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body Person enters animal's body
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.)
Carried in tale types

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