Serpent is taken for island.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd misunderstandings. · One thing mistaken for another. · Animal or person mistaken for something else. · view the constellation · filed as J1761.1.2
Motif
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 Whale thought to be island. Sailors light a fire on his back.
Filed beside it
Carried in tale types
- Other Mistaken Identities · ATU 1319*1 recorded variant