Origin of snail's shell.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: body covering. · view the constellation · filed as A2312.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationFaust: A Tragedy, First Part, Scene 21 (Walpurgis-Night)
- Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 1, Chapter 5
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 3737.— THUMBLING.
- Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, King Lear Act 1
- YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 14
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- JewishNeuman
- Africa (Fang)Trilles Proverbes 176.