L110A. A cut ear. 11.23.

The character swallows a person or (usually) a lot of people and animals, the hero kills the monster, and after cutting it, accidentally injures one of the swallowed ones. Usually he is offended and when the swallowed go out, he damages the hero or kills him.

Kiniramba, iramba, isanzu, kaguru, suto, gondas.

Bantu-speaking Africa. Kiniramba [Kiali's husband kills her sister; K. goes to her mother; on the way, the cannibal porcupine throws her into a hole, takes her form, comes to her house; the real K. comes to life, the cannibal is exposed, thrown into the fire, buried under the hearth; in the morning a pumpkin grows there; repeats everything the people of the village say; they come to chop it with an ax, she swallows them, and the woman with her son Mlilua remains hidden in the cave; he, starting with a grasshopper, hunts larger animals; kills the Kiali Pumpkin with arrows in the lake; dying, K. tells him to cut it from the back so as not to injure the swallowed ones; the swallowed ones come out; cutting K. , M. injured one woman's ear, she gives him poisoned beer, he dies]: Johnson 1931:334 in Werner 1933:217-218; iramba {apparently another retelling of the same text as attributed as" kiniramba"} [the pumpkin spoke, began to grow, when someone raised an ax to cut it, she swallowed it; the last woman with the baby hid in the cave; the boy Mlila grew up, brings everything to his mother bigger game, asking if it's an absorber; finds a giant, kills with arrows, who dies and tells him to cut it from the back so as not to cut the swallowed ones; swallowed people come out of the stomach and animals; ripping open the giant's womb, M. cut the ear of one woman, who killed M. with witchcraft]: Millroth 1965:194; Isanzu: Kohl-Larsen, Allenbach 1937, No. 16 [Hyena ate all the villagers, brother and sister stayed, hid in different places; Hyena tries to summon her sister in her brother's voice, she does not believe; every time she goes to the sorcerer to change her voice; finally, the sister believes, is swallowed; brother does drum, all animals are going to dance, Hyena is among them; her brother kills her by throwing a stick and a drum at her; she tells her to cut it from behind; her sister comes out first, all swallowed; one old woman has his ear was cut; she put poison in the young man's beer, he died], 32 [the monster Msisirimbugwe ate all humans and animals; a pregnant woman hid it in a cave, gave birth to a son; he kills a giraffe, then an elephant, but the mother always replies that it is not M.; M. takes the elephant, the young man chases him, catches up with M. swimming in the river; M. invites him to a cave with many weapons; the old man feeds him there; for 4 days he M. grazes cattle; secretly carries arrows into his mother's cave; fires at M., on the 15th day M. chases him, the young man's mother throws a red-hot iron rod at M.; he swallows it and everything inside him lights up; swallowed people and animals go out; ripping open M.'s stomach, the young man touched the ear of a swallowed old woman; she poisoned him with beer]: 17-18, 40-42; kaguru [the monster swallows all the villages a pregnant woman escapes in a cave, gives birth to a boy; he sees a monster, realizes that onions cannot kill him; asks his mother to make cakes, gives the monster, he is happy, asks for more every day; a young man throws hot stones into his mouth instead of cakes, the monster dies; the mother tells her son to rip open the monster's belly, the swallowed ones come out; the mother's brother accuses the young man of cutting the monster's belly, he cut his (uncle) eye, makes him pay for it {it is not said how}; the young man had a chain that he could swallow; his uncle asked for it, swallowed it, could not regurgitate; the young man demanded chain back, uncle's stomach ripped open]: Beidelman 1967d, No. 2:8-11; suto [the Kho-dumo-dumo monster swallows people and animals; a pregnant woman, showered in ash, hides in a cattle pen; fat K. gets stuck in the gorge; a woman's born son becomes a man, cuts K.'s stomach, swallowed out, makes the woman's son chief; cutting K., he accidentally injures one of the swallowed ; he persuades others to push the leader into a hole with hot coals; people mistakenly push their own; in the end, the leader himself agrees to be killed]: Zhukov, Kotlyar 1976, No. 114:269-271; (cf. Casalis 1859, No. 3 [the monster Kammapa swallowed everyone; a pregnant woman hid, gave birth to a son with an amulet necklace around his neck, called Litaolané ("fortuneteller"); he instantly grew up, rushed with with a knife on K., he swallowed it, L. began to cut it from the inside; cut the way out, and the swallowed ones shouted not to touch them; when they left, they decided to kill L.; they made a trap pit, but the amulet warned L. ; the same with other attempts to kill L.; he was chased, he turned into stone, the man threw a stone across the river - so I would break L.'s head; on the other side, the stone turned into L. again]: 363-365).

South Asia. Gonda [the Raja has two sons, their mother is dead; the Raja asks his sons whether to marry himself or marry them; they respectfully answer that he is himself; after the wedding, the Raja kisses his wife and dies immediately; the woman was taken by her older brother; a thread-thick snake crawled out of her mouth, became huge, swallowed her older brother; her younger brother saw it, cut the snake, but one leg of her older brother was also severed; he put this leg in his wife, his leg grew back to him, his wife died, but his leg could not be pulled out of the corpse; the youngest ripped open the woman's stomach, freed her brother, they ran into the forest; there they killed Dana ( when he died, he ordered his daughter to be killed; she was across 7 seas and 16 rivers; his elder brother swam across the sea, married Dano's daughter; the youngest was transported by a turtle, he began to honor her as a god]: Elwin 1944, No. 9: 320-323.