Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.)

Motif

Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.)

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wisdom-giving animals. · view the constellation · filed as B165.1.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section CXVII

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.

general *Penzer VII 3 n. 2
general *BP I 133.

Within the index

Filed under Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.)

Filed beside it

Animal languages from stolen serpent's crown. (Cf. B176.)Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them."

Travels with

Power of soothsaying from serpents' licking ears. (Cf. B165.1.1., B176.) Frazer Apollodorus II 48 n. 2

wander