Bad breath and forked tongue reveal identity of snake-king in guise of human

Motif

Bad breath and forked tongue reveal identity of snake-king in guise of human.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1822.3

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Animal disguises as human being. (Cf. K1825.1.5.)

Filed beside it

Lion disguised as monk Fox disguised as scholar Tiger disguises as human being

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