This is classified as TMI Z43.5 Boy changes self to nut.
THE SON WHO TRIED TO OUTWIT HIS FATHER
The father replied: “Hide wherever you like,” and then he went into his house to rest.
The son saw a three-kernel peanut, and changed himself into one of the kernels; a fowl coming along picked up the peanut and swallowed it; and a wild bush-cat caught and ate the fowl; and a dog met, chased, and ate the bushcat.
(bush-cat)
After a little time the dog was swallowed by a python, that, having eaten its meal, went to the river and was snared in a fish-trap.
The father searched for his son, and, not seeing him, went to look at his fish-trap. On pulling it to the riverside he found a large python in it.
He opened it and saw a dog inside, in which he found a bush-cat, and on opening that he discovered a fowl, from which he took the peanut, and breaking its shell he there revealed his son.
The son was so dumbfounded that he never tried again to outwit his father.
