μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wisdom from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.)

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wisdom-giving animals. · view the constellation · filed as B161.3

Cited in the index
  • general *Scott Thumb 173
  • general Fb "hugormekonge"
  • general Chauvin V 255ff. No. 152. – Scotch: Campbell II 377. – Cf. Diegueño: Du Bois AA n.s. VII 628.
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 Fortune learned from serpent Power of seeing whether the dead go to heaven or hell is gained from serpent
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Magic reptile

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