Venomous serpent. (Cf. B776.5.3.)

Motif

Venomous serpent. (Cf. B776.5.3.)

Animals. · Fanciful traits of animals. · Other fanciful traits of animals. · view the constellation · filed as B776.7

Attested across traditions

NorseThe Poetic Edda, HYMISKVITHA receipt
“The venomous serpent | swiftly up To the boat did Thor, | the bold one, pull;”
YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 3 receipt
“Sometimes, at night, he appeared in the shape of a venomous serpent.” uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

Irish mythCross
NorseHerrmann Saxo II 602, MacCulloch Eddic 105, Boberg
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Venomous animals.

Filed beside it

Garlic juice dangerous to poisonous animals Venomous sheep destroy enemy Toad considered venomous. (Cf. B776.5.1.)Venomous hound Venomous swine Blood of animal considered venomous Venomous worm

Travels with

Blood of snakes venomous. (Cf. B776.7.)

wander