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Motifs — first 20 of 51
- 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