Distended belly narrow throat
A motif · Form · Thompson F531.1.6.9, Marvels
2 figures carry it.
Nearby in Thompson's index
Motifs this bestiary also holds from F531.1.6 and below. The codes are the index's; the names and counts are ours.
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F531.1.6.9Blood drinking livestock attacks 1 figure
Carried by
Preta
Pretas are most often described as grotesquely disproportionate: a huge, distended belly signaling enormous, unrelieved hunger, set atop a thin, needle-like throat too narrow to pass more than a trace of food or drink.
Isiququmadevu
The creature is described as bloated and squat, bearded in some renderings, and its characteristic act is total consumption: it swallows people, cattle, dogs and whole settlements, and the accounts pile the categories up to convey scale.