Fortune learned from serpent — Mythoi

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Fortune learned from serpent.

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wisdom-giving animals. · view the constellation · filed as B161.2

Cited in the index

general Fb "orm" II 759b.

Within the index

Filed under Wisdom from serpent.

Filed beside it

Power of soothsaying from serpents' licking ears. (Cf. B165.1.1., B176.) Frazer Apollodorus II 48 n. 2 Wisdom from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.) Power of seeing whether the dead go to heaven or hell is gained from serpent

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