Snake swallows young to protect them — Mythoi

Motif

Snake swallows young to protect them.

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

Filed across the traditions

North Carolina Brown 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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