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Motif

Culture hero banishes snakes.

Mythological motifs. · Demigods and culture heroes. · Culture hero establishes law and order. · view the constellation · filed as A531.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish Cross, Giraldus Cambrensis Topography of Ireland I 23, Bede Historia Ecclesiastica I 18 (St. Patrick)
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 9, 303 No. 22.
  • general *Krappe "St. Patrick and the Snakes" Traditio V (1947) 323–330
Within the index

Filed under Culture hero (demigod) overcomes monsters.

Filed beside it
Culture hero spares certain evil spirits. Old Age, Cold, Poverty, and Hunger beg the culture hero not to destroy them because of their real usefulness to man Culture hero exterminates race of tigers Culture hero conquers sea monster

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