Serpent with jewel in his mouth

Motif

Serpent with jewel in his mouth.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Treasure animals. · Treasure animals – general. · view the constellation · filed as B103.4.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animal spitting (vomiting) treasure.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Grateful snake spits out lump of gold for his rescuer Snake vomits jewels

Filed beside it

Fish with coin in mouth Dog vomits gold and silver

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