Snake swallows young to protect them

Motif

Snake swallows young to protect them.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B751.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

North CarolinaBrown Coll. I 637f.
general *Speck JAFL XXXVI 298
general England, U.S.: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Animal's fanciful treatment of their young.

Filed beside it

Pelican kills young and revives them with own blood Eagle tests eaglets by having them gaze at sun The lion blows first life into its cubs three days after their birth Animal neglects its young Wolf strongly attracted to his own children

Travels with

Fanciful qualities of snakes. (Cf. B91.3, B751.1, B752.2.)

wander