Salamander subsists on fire — Mythoi

Motif

Salamander subsists on fire.

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Fanciful habits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B768.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Jewish *Neuman.
general Hertz Gesammelte Abhandlungen 257 n.

Within the index

Filed under Fancied nourishment of animals.

Filed beside it

Partridge subsists on moonbeams Swans live on pearls Serpent subsists on dust

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

What animal which lives in fire will burn if taken out of it? (Tegillus, now called salamander.) (Cf. B768.2.)

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