Salmon as oldest and wisest of animals.
Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wise animals. · view the constellation · filed as B124.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 189
- Irish myth Cross.
Within the index
Filed under Wise fish. (Cf. B175.)
1 finer motif beneath it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- The Cold May Night · ATU 1927 1 recorded variant
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