Snake eats milk and bread with child

Motif

Snake eats milk and bread with child.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B765.6

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.

general Type 672c.
general BP II 463
general Fb "snog" III 437a.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Snake drinks milk

Filed beside it

Snake takes tail in mouth and rolls like wheel Snake lays aside his crown to bathe Snake sucks poisonous dew from grass Snake milks cows at night Snake crawls from sleeper's mouth Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces Snake sucks poison from bite it has itself made Poisonous snakes in certain region have no venom Snake cracks self like coach whip and chases man Snake's venom kills tree Venomous snakes play with precious stones Copperhead guides rattlesnake to its prey Snake has hypnotic stare: person cannot move Snake stands up, whistles Snake has stinger Bullets have no effect on giant serpent; only stroke of lightning effective

Carried in tale types

The Serpent's Crown · ATU 6722 recorded variants
The Child and the Snake · ATU 2851 recorded variant

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