51 motifs match “swallowed”  ·  back to the chapters

• 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
• 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
• Fish bears men-children. Has swallowed rinsings of man's mouth. B631.3
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Recognition by hair found in a fish which has swallowed it. H75.3
• Heathen swallowed by earth. Proof of his belief. H1573.1.1
• 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
• Mouse's tail in mouth of sleeping thief causes him to cough up swallowed magic ring. K431
• 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
• 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
• Man who has never known unhappiness or want is swallowed up by earth with all his household. L424
• 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
• 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
• Sinners in hell swallowed by dragons. Q569.2
• Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.) R142
• Worm swallowed at conception eats hand of babe before birth. (Cf. T511.5.2.) T579.6
• Princess sick because toad has swallowed her consecrated wafer. V34.2
• Swallowed person is discovered in animal's stomach still alive. X1723.1
• Lie: man swallowed by fish and later rescued alive. X1723.1.2
• Watch continues to run indefinitely when lost (swallowed). X1755.1
• Boy changes self to nut; fowl eats nut; bush cat eats fowl; dog eats cat; dog swallowed by python. Z43.5
• The little old lady who swallowed a fly. She swallows a spider to eat up the fly, a bird to eat up the spider, a dog to eat the bird, a cow to eat the dog. "The little old lady swallowed a horse – she died, of course." Z49.14