Animal languages from stolen serpent's crown. (Cf. B176.)

Motif

Animal languages from stolen serpent's crown. (Cf. B176.)

Animals. · Magic animals. · Animals with magic wisdom. · Wisdom-giving animals. · view the constellation · filed as B165.1.2

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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 *Type 672A
general cf. BP II 464.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Animal languages learned by having ears licked by serpent. (Cf. B161.1.)Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them."

Travels with

Magic reptile

Carried in tale types

The Serpent's Crown · ATU 6722 recorded variants

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