Animal languages learned from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.) — Mythoi

Motif

Animal languages learned from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.)

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B217.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 17 No. 8
Icel. Boberg.
general *Type 673
general *BP I 131 (Gr. No. 17)
general *Cox 496 n. 32
general *Norlind Skattsägner 37ff.
general **Scott Thumb
general Philostratres Life of Apollonius (Loeb ed.) 57

Within the index

Filed under Animal languages learned from eating animal.

Filed beside it

Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic reptile Witch gets power by licking brew made from a serpent. (Cf. B217.1.1.)

Carried in tale types

The White Serpent's Flesh · ATU 673 1 recorded variant

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