Startled into releasing swallowed moon by human clamor
A motif · Behaviour · Thompson A737.1, Mythological motifs
One figure in this bestiary carries it.
Carried by
Minokawa
The combined clamor of human voices, a cacophony of shouts, screams, and banging of pots and pans, is said to startle the Minokawa enough to make it release the moon from its steel beak.