Giant serpent.
Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Giant animals. · view the constellation · filed as B875.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greek The Iliad , Book 22
- Norse The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda) , BRAGE’S TALK. AFTERWORD
- Norse The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda) , THE FOOLING OF GYLFE. XVI
- Norse The Poetic Edda , VOLUSPO VOLUSPO
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 1, Canto 42
Filed across the traditions
- Norwegian Solheim Register 17
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Chinese Werner 181 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter V
- Irish myth Cross
- Missouri-French Carrière
- Jewish Neuman
- Japanese Ikeda. – Eskimo (Greenland): Thalbitzer 5
- Tonga Gifford 178
- general *Chauvin VII 10 No. 373B n. 2
- general Jataka Index s.v. "Naga". – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 216f.
- general Ladino: Conzemius BBAE CVI 169. – S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 57, 59, 71.
Within the index
Filed under Giant reptiles.
Filed beside it
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Carried in tale types
- The Great Ox · ATU 1960A 1 recorded variant
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