Many-headed animal. (Cf. B15.7.2.)

Motif

Many-headed animal. (Cf. B15.7.2.)

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B15.1.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 18

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 357 n. 287f. – Africa (Angola): Chatelain 93 No. 5.

Within the index

Filed under Animal unusual as to his head.

13 finer motifs beneath it

Two-headed animal [First Edition: B15.1.2.3. Other two-headed animals.]Three-headed animal [First Edition: B15.1.2.5. Other three-headed animals.]Four-headed animal Five-headed animal Six-headed animal Seven-headed animal Eight-headed animal Nine-headed animal [First Edition: B15.1.2.9. Other nine-headed animals.]Ten-headed serpent Other many-headed animals

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Headless animals Animal with head of bone

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Many-headed dragon. (Cf. B15.1.2.)Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.)Invulnerability bestowed by many-headed monster. (Cf. B15.1.2.)

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