Dragon fly serves as snake's servant, feeds snake; it is called snake-feeder

Motif

Dragon fly serves as snake's servant, feeds snake; it is called snake-feeder.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B765.24

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

U.S.Baughman.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Dragon fly acts as doctor to injured snakes

Filed beside it

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