B48D. Pike swallows humans .31.35.41.

People or objects swallowed by a pike become part of its body, usually turning into bones in the pike's head.

Latvians, Eastern Khanty, Koyukon.

Baltoscandia. Latvians [When God created fish, God gave everyone what to eat, but the pike once forgot about it and swallowed the fisherman; to prevent her from doing this again, God put fishing gear in her head: top (Setznetz) became the mouth, the stabbing parts (Stechgerät) with teeth, the hook with the gills (Kiemenhaare); what gets into the mouth will not break out, what sticks to the gills (was die Stecher fassen, sitzt fest, was die Kiemen erreichen, haftet)]: Dähnhardt 1910:491.

Western Siberia. Eastern Khanty: Golovnev 1995 (b. Tromyegan)) [the pike crawled like a snake on the ground, devoured everything; Posty-young iki threw it into the water; seven bones in her head - things, people and animals it swallowed]: 567; Glavatskaya 2006 (b. Pim) [a pike has a lot of bones in its head and there is a story about each one; there is a bone that resembles a human figure; this is an old woman who was walking along the river with a basket behind her back; a pike jumped out rivers and swallowed it; the woman is still in the pike with her basket and ax]: 138.

Subarctic. Koyukon [a pike ate a baby who had pumped breast milk; the baby became her liver; when the pike's liver is cooked, a whitish liquid oozes from there]: Nelson 1983:73.