Serpents in hell

Motif

Serpents in hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A671.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 4, Story 6
Norse The Poetic Edda , HYNDLULJOTH HYNDLULJOTH
Norse The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda) , THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. IX
Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 3
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 9

Filed across the traditions

Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 319, 321, 332, Boberg
Irish myth Cross.
general Wimberly Folklore in Ballads 424

Within the index

Filed under Horrible sights in hell.

1 finer motif beneath it

Adders in hell

Filed beside it

Rivers of blood in hell Tree in hell made of living heads of the dead The fires of hell Dragons in hell Wolf in hell Gnats in hell Toads in hell Scorpions in hell Griffins in hell Birds made of iron in hell Lions in hell Scratching cats in hell Tigers in hell

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