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• Demon (opposed to God) allowed to earth four times a year (but must let people know who he is and not deceive them). A106.2.1.2
• Birth of culture heroes from human bones swallowed by jaguar's human wife. A511.1.4.3
• Culture hero swallowed and recovered from animal. A535
• Sun swallowed and spit out. In theft of sun, the raven (or devil) thus succeeds. A721.2
• Primeval human pair allowed to bear all children they wish. A1277.2
• Theft of light by being swallowed and reborn. The hero transforms himself to a particle. The daughter of the guardian of light swallows him as she is drinking water. He is reborn. As a child in the house he steals light. A1411.2
• Horse allowed to go as it pleases, finds unknown person. B151.1.1.0.3
• Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. B631.3
• Swallowed blackbeetle reproduces inside person's body. B784.1.5
• Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water. B784.2.1
• Tabu: profaning hallowed clothes and vessels. C93.2
• Tabu: drinking palm-drink: only prince allowed to break it. C272.3
• Forbidden chamber. Person allowed to enter all chambers of house except one. C611
• Forbidden stables. Person allowed to enter everywhere but into three stables. C611.2
• Tabu: relieving souls in hell. Boy who tends kettles in hell not allowed to raise covers to relieve poor souls. C741
• Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth. C770.1
• Death by being swallowed for breaking tabu. C929.5
• Snake disenchanted by being allowed to wrap itself three times around person's neck. D759.8
• Magic object carried away; child allowed to play with it. D861.10
• Immortality exchanged. Wounded Centaur immortal but cannot be cured. He gives away his immortality to Prometheus and is thus allowed to die. D1853
• Insect swallowed by man comes out alive. E32.1
• One man prays either to keep friend from death or for both to die. Both allowed to live. E165.1
• Rich man dragged from grave by demons in hallowed ground and flung into grave in unblessed ground. E411.0.5.1
• Person transforms self, is swallowed and reborn in new form. (Cf. D605.7, D610.) E607.2
• Person is swallowed and then reborn. E607.2.1
• Person swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. F92.2
• Girl gathering flowers swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world. F92.2.1
• Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy. F392
• Giant lies underground with trees growing all over his body. When his mouth is opened man falls into it and is swallowed. F531.2.6
• Thumbling swallowed by animals. F535.1.1.7
• Underground kingdom reached in a box which was swallowed by a dragon and later released. F721.3.2
• Person (animal) swallowed without killing. F911
• Thumbling swallowed by animals. (Cf. F914.2.) F911.3.1
• Party in canoe swallowed by great clam. F911.4.1.1
• Swallowed person eats on swallower's liver (heart) until disgorged. (Cf. F914, F915.1.) F912.3
• Swallowed person tickles serpent's throat and is disgorged. F912.3.1
• Smith swallowed by water-monster and rescued by saint. F913.1
• Person swallowed and disgorged. F914
• Princess stands in middle of dried-up tank so serpent will release the water, which he had swallowed up completely. F914.1
• Swallowed person becomes bald. F921
• Swallowed person becomes boneless. F921.1
• Swallowed person bereft of clothing. F922
• Tent-house folded and swallowed as means of carrying it. F923
• Temple swallowed by earth. F941.2.3
• Ogre tortured by not being allowed to sleep. G585
• Recognition by hair found in a fish which has swallowed it. H75.3
• Pope tests women's disobedience: not to look into box. (Cf. H1554.1.) They do so and are not allowed to hear confession. H1557.4
• Heathen swallowed by earth. Proof of his belief. H1573.1.1
• The forgotten wind. Man allowed to manage the weather forgets to ask help of the wind. All goes wrong and he must give up management. J755.1
• Fox about to be hanged asks to be allowed to see geese. (Cf. J2174.) J864.2
• Clever pleading: youth in court for calling king a fool, proves truth of statement because king allowed self to be duped by alchemist. J1162.4
• Complaint about the stolen kiss. Woman is allowed to take one in return. J1174.2
• Condemned man wins pardon by clever remark. Fool is allowed to jump off cliff (balcony) as punishment. Master expresses surprise that in three trials he has failed to hurl himself from the height. The jester offers the prince four trials. Amused prince pardons the jester. J1181.3
• To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first. J1182.1
• Clever thief may keep booty. He has seen his victim in a disgraceful position and is allowed the booty as a price for his silence. J1211.2
• Absurd pretence, when allowed, puts pretender out of countenance. J1214
• Claim that dog-head captured game. Two hunters, one with dog and other with dog-head, dispute. The claim that the dog-head captured the game is allowed and then the alarm is raised that the owner of the, game is coming to punish the theft. J1214.1
• Ox bought; buyer also claims load of wood attached. Later deceived man disguises and sells sharper another ox for "handful of coppers." He is allowed by court to claim the hand as well. J1511.17
• The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation. J1545.4
• A snake for the real daughter. Stepdaughter, married to a snake, appears decorated with jewels. Stepmother desires a snake be procured for her daughter. She is swallowed instead. J2415.7
• Thief disguises voice and is allowed access to goods (children). K311.3
• Trickster pretends to have spit in wine accidentally. Is allowed to drink it. K355.1
• Companion's arm allowed to be cut off so as to prevent detection. Thief has had his arm cut off as he enters a hole in a wall. He lets his companion also enter and have his severed. K407.2
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping thief causes him to cough up swallowed magic ring. K431
• Three cries allowed maiden about to be murdered. Rescue arrives. K551.3.3
• Mare is allowed to dance before being killed; it dashes off to jungle with persecuted boy hidden in belly. K551.3.6.2
• Turtle allowed to go to pool to pick flowers before death. Escapes. K551.26
• Ram promises to jump into wolf's belly. Gives him a hard knock. The stunned wolf thinks he has swallowed the ram. (Cf. K579.5.1.) K553.3
• Man allowed to pick out tree to be hanged on. Cannot find one. K558
• Boy swallowed by fish that is thrown up on shore persuades tiger to cut it open with injunction not to look at him. K565.1
• Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him. K952.1.1
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's drum": it is a wasp nest. K1023.1
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's girdle": it is a snake, which bites him. K1023.1.1
• Dupe allowed to guard "king's litter": sticks in mud. K1056
• Swindlers allowed to hide money: proves to be basket of stones. K1675
• Sham wise man (girl's confederate) interprets pretended dream for girl. Insists she be allowed to marry man of her own choice. K1956.6
• Adulteress pretends to faint when her husband strikes her with a rose. She has allowed her lover to abuse her. K2051.2
• Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes. K2378.1
• Modest choice proves good (simple unique privilege). Girl offered reward of five villages chooses rather to be only one on certain night to be allowed to have light in her house and to keep all animals who enter as hers. All kinds of livestock come. L212.4
• Man who has never known unhappiness or want is swallowed up by earth with all his household. L424
• False swearer not allowed to approach altar. M101.1
• Vow that no daughter born to chief's wife will be allowed to live until she bears a son. M184.1
• Prophecy: man to be swallowed up by earth at the foot of his stairs. M341.2.25
• Children swallowed one after the other as they are born for fear one of them will overcome father. M376.3
• Curse: to be swallowed by a siren. M434
• Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will. N277
• Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
• Apparently dead woman revives when dropped. Had swallowed a bone. Lover exhumes her. Stumbles as he carries her. She revives and later marries him. N694.1
• Criminal allowed to choose his method of execution. P511
• Man condemned to lose his eye is allowed to choose the instrument. P511.2
• Captive knight freed for having kept his word. Is allowed to leave to collect ransom (or marry fiancée). When he returns his captor frees him (or raises ransom). Q54.2
• Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Q569.2
• Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.) R142
• Wives change clothes with their imprisoned husbands when allowed to visit them. Husbands escape. R152.3
• Lover allowed to sleep with woman first few nights after her marriage to another. T161.1
• Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.) T579.6
• Dog allowed to warm self in house begins to bark. Is chased off. U126
• Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. V34.2
• Crane pulls bone from wolf's throat: wolf refuses payment. "That you were allowed to take your beak from my throat is payment enough." (Cf. B382.) W154.3
• Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive. X1723.1