Fortune learned from serpent

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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

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general Fb "orm" II 759b.

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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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