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• 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
• Lizard swallows fish bone: hence head bobs up and down. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2211.9
• Cow swallows book; cause of maniplies in stomach. A2219.2
• Swallows lift Christ's crown of thorns from his brow: why their nests are not destroyed. (Cf. A2431.3.5.) A2221.2.4
• Swallows put on mourning at crucifixion: have never taken it off. A2221.2.4.1
• Swallows torment Christ on cross: lose voice. (Cf. A2422.9.) A2231.2.2
• Why swallows lost voice. (Cf. A2231.2.2.) A2422.9
• Why swallows migrate. A2482.1
• Mandrake from blood of person hanged on gallows. (Cf. A2664.) A2611.5
• Mermaid swallows man. B81.10
• Ass carries usurer's body to the gallows instead of to the church. He has been denied burial in the church. B151.1.1.2.1
• Faithful horse allows only its master to catch and ride it. B301.4.4
• Dragon swallows arrow (thunderbolt) intended for hero. B529.2
• Fish swallows man to rescue him from sea. B541.1.1
• Sea-beast allows voyager to land upon his back. B556
• Snake swallows young to protect them. B751.1
• Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt). B784.1.1
• Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach. B784.1.2
• Person swallows snake semen or egg while eating watercress. B784.1.3
• Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body. B784.1.4
• Tabu: buying gallows flesh or living flesh. C781.1
• Transformation to falcon in order to rescue condemned man at the gallows. D643.1
• Magic gate swallows axes trying to force it open. (Cf. D1146.) D1381.31
• Magic charm allows person to hook mythical eel. (Cf. D1273.) D1444.1.4
• Magic rod swallows other rods. (Cf. D1254.2.) D1693
• Man has magic servants who plow for him; he swallows them each day and keeps them secret. D1719.8
• Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. D1749.1
• Return from dead to punish theft of liver from man on gallows. E235.4.4
• Gallows ghost. Ghost haunts gallows. E274
• Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy. F392
• Water-goddess allows body of drowning person to come up three times. F420.5.2.1.4
• Giant swallows men. F531.3.11
• Giant allows others to cling to him while he swims with them safely across the rivers. F531.3.13.2
• God swallows his wife and incorporates her into his own being. (Cf. F1034.2.) F911.1.1
• Animal swallows man (not fatally). F911.3
• Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man. F911.4
• Fish swallows ship. F911.4.1
• Serpent swallows canoe and occupant. F911.4.1.2
• Giant swallows man. F911.5
• Toad (as man) swallows all women's earthenware. F911.6.1
• Serpent swallows man. F911.7
• Tigress swallows abandoned baby again and again, but it comes out from behind. F914.3
• Monster swallows people through anus. F917
• Elephant allows jackal to quench his thirst by entering through his mouth to his stomach. F929.1
• Man swallows reptiles. F929.2
• Person unwittingly swallows snake, which kills him. F929.2.1
• Ground opens and swallows up person. F942.1
• Ground opens and swallows forest. F947
• Ground opens and swallows heathen idols. F948.1
• Earth swallows up Temple vessels. F948.1.1
• Ground opens and swallows other object. F948.2
• Ground opens and swallows demoniac wasps. F949.1.1
• Star swallows four other stars. F961.2.7
• Pig swallows necklace. F989.22.3
• Gate swallows axes trying to force it open. F1009.2
• As result of fraud, Saturn swallows stone instead of infant Jove. G11.0.1.1
• Witch as hare allows self to be coursed by dogs for pay or for sport. G211.2.7.1
• Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) G303.12.5.4
• Satan swallows victim. G303.20.7
• Rakshasa hidden in deer's head swallows men. G369.1.6
• Gallows rope breaks when innocent person is hanged. H215.2
• Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer. H1382.1
• Fear test: staying under gallows at night. H1415
• Old man chooses to be annoyed by occasional and loud chirp of swallows than by never-ending but soft chirp of sandpipers. J215.1.4
• Contest in beauty between swallows and crows (ants and flies): worth lies not in beauty. J242.6
• Lion suitor allows his teeth to be pulled and his claws to be cut. He is then killed. J642.1
• Swallows warn other birds against roosting in tree with glue. They disregard and are caught. J652.2
• Youth in court for kissing prince's daughter pleads his love for her. Prince allows plea: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do to those who hate us?" J1174.1
• Against his will. A thief condemned to the gallows tells the king, "I do what you do and it is against my will." King: "You shall also be hanged against your will." J1285
• Taking cold in effigy. A traitor is hanged in effigy naked. Later the citizens sue for peace and arrange a meeting. They find him in a hot room swathed with many blankets. He says that he has taken cold when the night wind blew on him as he hung naked from the gallows. J1628
• Did the calf eat the man? A fool, liking the shoes on the feet of a man hanged on a gallows, cuts off the swollen feet in order to carry off the shoes. In the room in which he sleeps that night is a newborn calf. The next morning the man takes the shoes but leaves the feet. Peasants agree that the calf has eaten the man all but the feet. They burn the house to destroy the calf. J1815
• Fool cannot answer as his mouth is full; thought to have an abscess in cheeks, allows them to be cut open. J1842.2
• Animal allows himself to be tied to another's tail and is dragged to death. J2132.5
• Crocodile swallows water-snake, which kills him. J2137.4
• Numskull talks about his secret instructions and thus allows himself to be cheated. Told not to serve a man with a red beard or to keep sausage for the long winter, etc. J2355
• "Only light the fire." Fool allows the house to burn down. J2516.3.4
• The sleeper answers for the dead man. A man falls asleep by a gallows. A company of wags come and invite the dead man on the gallows to accompany them. The sleeper awakes with a start and says, "I'll come at once." The wags flee in terror. J2618
• Hare and tortoise race: sleeping hare. In a race between the fast and the slow animal, the fast animal sleeps on the road and allows the slow animal to pass him. K11.3
• Man is robbed of gold chain while with prostitute. He swallows her string of pearls in revenge. (Cf. K302.1.) K306.3
• Man allows himself to be carried off by monkeys, who mistake him for cow: steals their magic cups. K311.6.2
• Thief pretends to horse dealer that he wishes to buy a horse. Dealer allows him to climb on horse to see how he rides; thief runs off with horse. K341.8.2
• Confederate allows self to be sold as slave. K365.1
• Self-returning cow. A cow allows itself to be sold; then returns to its master. K366.1.3
• Speaking goat swallows gold coins in temple and voids for master. K366.5
• Thief swallows stolen goods to escape detection. K417
• One animal swallows another to save him from pursuer. K649.1.1
• Animal allows himself to be tied so as to avoid being carried off by storm. K713.1.1
• Animal allows himself to be tied to another for safety. Carried to his death. (Cf. J2132.6.) K713.1.2
• Ogre allows self to be tied so as to learn magic. K713.1.5
• Animal allows self to be tied so as to learn music. K713.1.6
• Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executioner. K715
• Serpent asks his victim to feed him with honey, then seizes and swallows him. K815.18
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• Water-monster allows saint to place cauldron over its head until Luan. K2314.2.1
• Arrogant farmer allows none to ride his precious horse without permission. He kills the man who does it, but is in revenge deprived of most of his goods. L434
• Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
• Devil at gallows repudiates his bargain with robber. Ring turns to rope. The judge cannot find a rope and is about to release the thief because of the miracle. But the ring in the box presented by the devil as a bribe turns out to be a rope. The man is hanged. M212.2
• Beheading bargain. Giant allows hero to cut off his head; he will cut off hero's later. M221
• God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears. M376
• Oxen bear dead usurer to gallows to be buried. They are allowed to go where they will. N277