μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Helpful serpent.

Animals. · Friendly animals. · Kinds of helpful animals. · Other helpful animals. · view the constellation · filed as B491.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri-French Carrière. – Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 86 n. 2, 312 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 305 No. 3
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 132 No. 78
  • Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 46 No. 78. – Burmese: Scott Indo-Chinese Myth. 274
  • Indonesian De Vries Volksverhalen I No. 67. – Sumatran: Dixon 163
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 95, No. 52. – Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 163 No. 32, (Zanzibar): Bateman 222 No. 10, (Benga): Nassau 208 No. 33.
  • general *Types 612, 670, 672, 673
  • general *BP I 128, 131, II 463
  • general Dh I 276ff. (cf. A2145.2.), IV 147ff. (Type 560)
  • general *Fb "hugorm" I 666
  • general "snog" III 436b, "blad" IV 44a
  • general *Chauvin II 106 No. 71, VII 25 No. 373F n. 5
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 440
  • general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 648
  • general *Ward Catalogue of Romances III 208
  • general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 141
  • general *Warnke Quellen des Esope der Marie de France 221ff.
  • general Dickson Valentine and Orson 53

…and 1 more.

Within the index

Filed under Helpful reptile.

Filed beside it
Helpful lizard Helpful crocodile Helpful worm Helpful turtle (tortoise)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sleepless dragon Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5) Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) Bird language Grateful animals Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god Transformation and disenchantment at will Power of self-transformation received from a god Magic ship. (Cf. D1121.) Magic drug renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1240.) Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.) Speaking ship. (Cf. D1123.)
Carried in tale types

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