Culture hero banishes snakes

Motif

Culture hero banishes snakes.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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IrishCross, Giraldus Cambrensis Topography of Ireland I 23, Bede Historia Ecclesiastica I 18 (St. Patrick)
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 300 No. 9, 303 No. 22.
general *Krappe "St. Patrick and the Snakes" Traditio V (1947) 323–330

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Filed under Culture hero (demigod) overcomes monsters.

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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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