B. Animals
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B784.1. How animal gets into person's stomach (or body) (various methods).
B784.1.1. Person drinking from brook swallows animal eggs (frog or newt). England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman.
B784.1.2. Person swallows pebble on beach; snake grows in stomach. U.S.: Baughman.
B784.1.3. Person swallows snake semen or egg while eating watercress. England: *Baughman.
B784.1.4. Girl swallows frog spawn; an octopus grows inside her with tentacles reaching to every part of her body. Eng.: Baughman.
B784.1.5. Swallowed blackbeetle reproduces inside person's body. England: Baughman.
B784.1.6. Girl eats plums and maggots in them; maggots multiply inside her body. England: Baughman.
B784.1.7. Scaly lizard jumps into person's mouth. U.S.: Baughman.
B784.1.8. Salamander gets into veins through cracks in feet when person goes barefoot. U.S.: Baughman.
B784.2. Means of ridding person of animal in stomach.
B784.2.0.1. No remedy possible. England: Baughman.
B784.2.1. Patient fed salt: animal comes out for water. The patient is fed salt or heavily salted food and allowed no water for several days. He then stands with mouth open before a supply of fresh water, often a running brook. The thirsty animal emerges to get fresh water. — Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda (J1115.2.3).
F582. Poison damsel. F950. Marvelous cures. G274.1. Witch snared.
B784.2.1.1. Snake (frog) in human body enticed out by milk (water). India: Thompson-Balys.
B784.2.1.2. Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband. — India: Thompson-Balys.
B784.2.2. Patient sits before tempting meal without eating; animal emerges. Ireland, England, U.S.: *Baughman.
B784.2.3. Frog is enticed from patient's mouth by offering it a piece of cheese. England: Baughman.
B784.2.4. Physician removes animal from stomach of patient. U.S.: *Baughman.
B785. Animal wards off spirits. Irish myth: Cross.
B524. Animal overcomes man's adversary.
B786. Monkeys always copy men. India: Thompson-Balys.
B787. Birds mock ascetic's devotions. India: Thompson-Balys.
B788. Bats keep fireflies to light their houses. India: Thompson-Balys.
B791. Elephants have power of bringing rain. Buddhist myth: Malala sekera I 41.
B792. Why certain animals are thought of as good or bad. Jewish: Neuman.
