35 motifs match “belly”  ·  back to the chapters

• Sun and moon from belly of a fish. A713.1
• Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster. A1013
• Why women have marks on the belly. A1310.4
• Why other members must serve belly. Result of a debate between members of the body. A1391
• Why swine's belly is bare. A2317.1
• Origin and nature of animal's belly. A2354
• Why salmon has purple belly. A2412.4.2.1
• Animals (sow, bitch, mare) hide boy in their belly to protect him. B529.1
• Curse laid upon man by stories he fails to tell: they creep out of his belly when he is asleep and talk. C672.1
• Supplies from bull's belly. D1470.2.6
• Bee in its belly vitalizes tiger. D1594.3
• Eaten magic dog howls from eater's belly. D1619.2.1
• Person with enormous belly. F529.6
• Animal with men in its belly playing cards, etc. F911.3.3
• Man builds boat and sails about in giant's belly. F911.5.1
• Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.) F913
• Two devils (male and female) extracted from corpse's belly. G303.1.8
• Ogres who have no belly. G366.1
• Ogre kills self when he sees crumbs lying on his belly. G523
• The belly and the members. Debate as to their usefulness. All mutually useful. J461.1
• Fool thinks belly is speaking to him; stabs himself. Other animals are shouting at him. J1817
• The wife multiplies the secret. To prove that a woman cannot keep a secret the man tells his wife that a crow has flown out of his belly (or that he has laid an egg). She tells her neighbor that two crows have flown. Soon he hears from his neighbors that there were fifty crows. J2353
• The horse swifter than the rain. Caught in the rain, a trickster finds that his horse will not budge. He undresses, puts his clothes under the horse's belly and keeps them dry. When he reaches the king, he reports that his horse has run so fast that he has had no time to get wet. The king buys the horse. K134.2
• "Get into my belly." The wee cock, lost in the woods, orders the fox, the bear, and the wolf to get into his belly. Overawed, the beasts make their apologies promising never to annoy him again. The bear even carries the cock home. (Cf. K1715.7.) K547.1
• Mare is allowed to dance before being killed; it dashes off to jungle with persecuted boy hidden in belly. K551.3.6.2
• 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
• Thumbling in animal's belly persuades latter to go to his father's house for plunder: rescued. K565
• Escape under ram's belly. By hiding under the belly of a ram the hero escapes under the legs of the blind ogre. K603
• Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him. K952.1.1
• True bride lives in fish's belly. K1911.2.2.1
• "Burnt-belly" as hero. L112.5
• Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.14
• Boy born from fish's belly. T549.3
• Child in mother's belly guides her. T575.1.6
• Fly forgets her name; asks woodcutter, axe, tree, etc., in vain. Finally foal in mare's belly says her name is "fly". Z25