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- Why Santals eat entrails of hare. A1422.1.1
- Hero kills hostile hound (monster) by tearing (forcing) out its entrails (heart). B17.1.2.2.1
- Treasure produced by goat's entrails. B119.2
- Magic entrails of animal. D1015.3
- Magic entrails of bird. D1015.3.1
- Magic entrails of goat. D1015.3.2
- Entrails of live pigeon placed above house door fetch lover to the spot. D1355.3.4
- Wild huntsmen with entrails stringing from open bodies. E501.7.5
- Life (soul) in entrails. E714.11
- Dwarf can draw entrails out of elephant. F451.3.4.11
- Man whose entrails are visible when he laughs. F594
- Giant magic boar slain by tearing out entrails from behind. F981.8
- Witch eats person's entrails (heart). G262.2
- Entrails substituted for meat. Prometheus divides slain ox so that bones and entrails seem to be choicest part. (Zeus is not deceived.) K476.1
- Eating his own entrails. The fox persuades the wolf to do so. K1025
- Hero frightens dog into giving up eating men by pretending to eat own entrails. K1721.1
- Lucky cast of ball: boy throws ball into mouth of hostile hound. Ball carries out entrails. N623.2
- Punishment: twisting entrails from body. Q469.7
- Man fettered with the entrails of his own sons as punishment for treachery. (Cf. Q261.) Q469.7.1
- Man miraculously made to excrete his entrails for heresy. (Cf. Q225.1, Q469.7.) Q559.11
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