Motif
hero enters monster’s mouth and kills from within
hero_enters_monster_s_mouth_and_kills_from_within
A motif of the Conditional Invulnerability and Hidden Weakness family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto LII. The Exit. / Canto LXIV. The Sea. / Canto LXV. The Council. / BOOK V.(787); lines 44922-45050 confidence: high
Hanuman expands, Sinhika opens her jaws, he compresses himself and enters her mouth, is compared to the moon in Rahu’s jaws, tears her body within, emerges, and kills her.
Hanuman enters Sinhika’s monstrous mouth, tears her body inside, emerges, and is praised for killing the fiend.
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