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• 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
• Great darkness due to awk swallowing the sun. A721.2.1
• 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
• Creation of swallow. A1917
• Lizard swallows fish bone: hence head bobs up and down. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2211.9
• Swallow thrown on his tail: cause of split tail. (Cf. A2378.5.1.) A2214.1
• 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
• What creature has sweetest blood: gnat's tongue torn out. Assembly to decide who has the sweetest blood so that it may be the food for the serpent. Gnat discovers that man has the sweetest blood. Rather than let him tell this secret, swallow tears out his tongue. Gnat can only buzz. (Cf. A2344.2, A2426.3.2.) A2236.1
• Why swallow has no tongue. A2344.2.3
• Why swallow has forked tail. (Cf. A2214.1.) A2378.5.1
• Why swallow has black feathers in tail and only two feathers. A2378.8.6
• Color of swallow. (Cf. A2218, A2219.1, A2221.2.4.1.) A2411.2.1.4
• How night-swallow got voice. A2421.1
• Why swallows lost voice. (Cf. A2231.2.2.) A2422.9
• Meaning of swallow's song. A2426.2.12
• Swallow's nest. (Cf. A2221.2.4.) A2431.3.5
• Why swallow does not like green trees for her nest. A2431.3.5.1
• Why swallow is thief. A2455.2
• Why swallows migrate. A2482.1
• Why swallow brings good luck. A2536.1
• Mermaid swallows man. B81.10
• Swallow as messenger. B291.1.11
• Dragon swallows arrow (thunderbolt) intended for hero. B529.2
• Fish swallows man to rescue him from sea. B541.1.1
• Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. B631.3
• Magic love-working stone in swallow's head. B722.1
• 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
• Swallowed blackbeetle reproduces inside person's body. B784.1.5
• 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
• Transformation: man to swallow. D151.1
• Man calls wife "my swallow"; she becomes swallow. (Cf. A1917.) D511.1
• Magic skin of swallow. D1025.4
• Magic swallow-skin warns of danger. (Cf. D1025.4.) D1317.3
• Magic gate swallows axes trying to force it open. (Cf. D1146.) D1381.31
• 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
• Magic powers from swallowing. D1735
• Magic powers from swallowing a straw. D1735.1
• Language acquired by swallowing its written characters. D1735.2
• Magic powers from swallowing magic drink. (Cf. D1040.) D1735.3
• Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. D1749.1
• Insect swallowed by man comes out alive. E32.1
• 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
• Reincarnation as swallow. (Cf. D151.1.) E613.4
• 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
• Giant swallows men. F531.3.11
• Thumbling swallowed by animals. F535.1.1.7
• Voice made rough by swallowing hot iron. F556.1
• Voice made smooth by swallowing hot iron. F556.1.1
• Underground kingdom reached in a box which was swallowed by a dragon and later released. F721.3.2
• Extraordinary swallowings. F910
• Person (animal) swallowed without killing. F911
• Men swallow men. F911.1
• God swallows his wife and incorporates her into his own being. (Cf. F1034.2.) F911.1.1
• Animals swallow animals. F911.2
• Animal swallows man (not fatally). F911.3
• Thumbling swallowed by animals. (Cf. F914.2.) F911.3.1
• Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man. F911.4
• Fish swallows ship. F911.4.1
• Party in canoe swallowed by great clam. F911.4.1.1
• Serpent swallows canoe and occupant. F911.4.1.2
• Giant swallows man. F911.5
• All-swallowing monster. Has whole towns of people and buildings, etc. inside. F911.6
• Toad (as man) swallows all women's earthenware. F911.6.1
• Serpent swallows man. F911.7
• Victim kills swallower from within. F912
• Victim kills swallower from within by burning. F912.1
• Victim kills swallower from within by cutting. F912.2
• 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
• Victims rescued from swallower's belly. (Cf. X1723.1.) F913
• 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
• Tigress swallows abandoned baby again and again, but it comes out from behind. F914.3
• Victim speaks from swallower's body. F915
• Victim pecks on swallower's stomach. (Cf. F912.3.) Bird eaten by king pecks on his stomach. King vomits and bird escapes. F915.1
• Monster swallows people through anus. F917
• 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
• Extraordinary swallowings – miscellaneous. F929
• Man swallows reptiles. F929.2
• Person unwittingly swallows snake, which kills him. F929.2.1
• Temple swallowed by earth. F941.2.3