Person enters animal's body — Mythoi

Motif

Person enters animal's body.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies: logical absurdities. · Absurd disregard of anatomy. · view the constellation · filed as X1723.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXI XXI. Tabooed Things
Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 7: The Glory of the World, or Table of Paradise
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 2, Section XLIII
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XII
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , King Lear Act 3

Filed across the traditions

U.S. Baughman.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Man crawls into body of animal (after killing it) to escape cold. The animal freezes back together; man must eat his way out

Filed beside it

Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive Falcon and heron eaten by wild boar recovered alive from his body

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