48 motifs match “stomach”  ·  back to the chapters

• Origin of hair around mouth and eyes. Original dispute between Hair and Stomach. Stomach compelled to stay on inside of man. Hair stands on guard at mouth and eyes to see that Stomach does not escape. A1315.4
• Cow swallows book; cause of maniplies in stomach. A2219.2
• Why grizzly bears have three stripes on inside of stomach. A2367.2.1
• Tormenting beast in man's stomach. B16.0.2
• Animal lives in person's stomach. B784
• Frog living in person's stomach rises into throat, croaks every spring. B784.0.1
• How animal gets into person's stomach (or body) (various methods). B784.1
• Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach. B784.1.2
• Means of ridding person of animal in stomach. B784.2
• Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband. B784.2.1.2
• Physician removes animal from stomach of patient. B784.2.4
• Transformation in order to enter rival's stomach. (Cf. D651.2.) D641.3
• Magic stomach of animal. D1015.5
• Magic stomach of hare. D1015.5.1
• Hare's stomach causes fecundity. (Cf. D1015.5.1.) D1347.6
• Magic water cures stomach trouble. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1502.11
• Eaten goat bleats from eater's stomach. (Cf. D1032.) D1619.2.2
• Human bone, found in demon's stomach wrapped in silk with bow and arrow, becomes a boy. E149.1
• Reincarnation as flour vat. Stomach made into flour vat. E649.2
• Stomach borrowed by animal. Later returned. E787
• Wood-spirits with teeth on stomach. F441.4.6
• Person with eyes in stomach. (Cf. F511.0.1.1.) F512.3
• Person with mouth in stomach. (Cf. F511.0.1.1.) F513.0.1
• Giantess transforms self to fly in order to tear woman's stomach. F531.1.8.5
• When sad, man lets one lip fall to stomach; other makes hood over his head. F544.1.2
• Extraordinary stomach. F559.6
• Stomach attains immense proportions by overeating. F559.6.1
• Victim pecks on swallower's stomach. (Cf. F912.3.) Bird eaten by king pecks on his stomach. King vomits and bird escapes. F915.1
• Elephant allows jackal to quench his thirst by entering through his mouth to his stomach. F929.1
• Paunch opened and fat taken out to cure stomach. F959.4
• Witch says her knees are beads (liver is lead, stomach is copper, or the like). G229.4.4
• Witch's heart (lungs, stomach) impossible to burn. G275.3.2
• Painting on wife's stomach as chastity index. H439.1.1
• Eyes treated for the stomach ache. A man who has stomach ache from eating bad bread is treated for his eyes so that he will thereafter be able to tell good bread from bad. [Inadvertant duplication of X372.3.] J1603
• Bird protruding from king's stomach cut out with swords: king killed. J1842.3
• Child's stomach split open to cure him of wandering. J1842.4
• A man without a stomach. The man complains that he is a mere slave of his stomach. His wish is granted and the stomach taken away from him. He discovers soon that life has become very uninteresting to him, and recovers his stomach again. J2072.4
• Man transforms self to gadfly to enter giant's stomach and kill him. K952.2
• Girl puts off consummation of marriage to undesirable suitor by saying her "stomach is sick". K1227.5.1
• "Dogs are chasing you," says ox to jackal. Really water gurgling in the ox's stomach. K1725.1
• Man undertakes to cure fat abbot of stomach ailment. Starves him until he admits he can eat anything. K1955.1.1
• The stupid monk recovers the stolen flocks. A nobleman steals the abbot's flocks, saying that the monks have no use for them since they eat no meat. The most learned of the monks tries to recover them, but without success. The most stupid is then sent. Asked to dinner, he eats till he can hold no more. He tells the nobleman that he ate as much as possible since he could take back with him only what he had in his stomach. The nobleman pleased with the reply returns the flocks. L141.1
• Needle kills an elk. Slips into his stomach. L391
• Talisman found in bird's stomach. N527.2
• Stolen animal cries out from stomach of thief. Q552.4.1
• Stingy man cancels invitations to his guests. "It is better that they speak ill of me on an empty stomach than on a full one." W152.9
• Eyedrops prescribed for stomach ache so that patient can see what he eats. [Inadvertant duplication of J1603.] X372.3
• Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive. X1723.1