Snake preserved in ark: to stop hole with tail

Motif

Snake preserved in ark: to stop hole with tail.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of fish and other animals. · Creation of reptiles. · view the constellation · filed as A2145.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EsthonianAarne FFC XXV 149. No. 61
LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 192ff.
general Dh I 277. Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 107, XXXIII 54 No. 107

Within the index

Filed under Creation of snake (serpent).

Filed beside it

Origin of horned serpent Snake from blood of slain monster. Medusa. (Cf. A1724, A2001.)Snake created to suck poison from earth Snake from devil's slaver Adder harmful to holy person transformed to blindworm. (Cf. A1710, A1730, A2231.7.)

Carried in tale types

The Devil in Noah's Ark [K485] · ATU 82512 recorded variants

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