73 motifs match “snakes”  ·  back to the chapters

• God (deity) girdled with snakes; on his forehead shines the moon. A123.10
• Goddess represented as mounted on a drake, attended by eight chief snakes attended by snake jewels. A137.9
• Goddess sleeps on bed of snakes. A155.6
• Culture hero banishes snakes. A531.2
• Origin of sea from rotting snakes. A924.2
• Why the Muria eat snakes. A1681.3
• Lizard wins contest with toad: why snakes and lizards change their skins. A2250.2
• Why snakes and lizards change skins. (Cf. A2250.2.) A2311.9
• Why there are no snakes in Ireland. A2434.2.3
• Why snakes are proud. A2523.2
• Why snakes are venomous. (Cf. A2235.) A2532.1
• Snakes issue from dragon's shoulders. B11.2.7
• Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body. B15.7.1
• King of serpents (snakes). B244.1
• Queen of watersnakes. B244.1.1
• Four royal families of snakes. B244.1.4
• Priest of snakes. B252.3
• Snakes have mass. B253.1
• Army of snakes. B268.7
• Army of snakes and scorpions. B268.7.1
• Snake grateful because man feeds her young snakes milk. B391.1.2
• Frog rescues man from kingdom of the snakes. B547.4
• Female rattlesnakes mate with black snakes rather than with male rattlesnakes. B754.3.1
• Fanciful qualities of snakes. (Cf. B91.3, B751.1, B752.2.) B765
• Snakes may be killed, but do not die. B765.7.1
• Poisonous snakes in certain region have no venom. B765.9
• Venomous snakes play with precious stones. B765.12
• Snakes will not cross rope made of hair. B765.18.2
• Snakes will not cross a ring made of Irish earth. B765.18.3
• Snake revives snakes which have been injured (the doctor snake). B765.21
• Dragon fly acts as doctor to injured snakes. B765.24.1
• Blood of snakes venomous. (Cf. B776.7.) B776.5.3
• Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) D513.1
• Transformation to snakes at night in order to sleep. (Cf. D621.1.1.) Done by otherworld people. D659.1
• White ash stick held before snakes causes them to flee. D1447.3
• Reptile-men cure snake bites, and can summon together snakes (or mice) and lead them away anywhere. D1711.13
• Magic invulnerability of saint enables him to break poisonous snakes in bare hands. D1840.1.1
• Snakes put to sleep by music on harp. (Cf. B765, D1275.1.) D1962.5
• Magic army of snakes and frogs drawn down on foe. D2091.2.1
• Vicious snakes easily controlled by saint. D2156.5
• Snakes expelled from human body by saint's intervention. D2156.5.2
• Snakes banned by magic. D2176.1
• Revenant as horrible female figure. Covered with snakes and toads. E425.1.6
• Hole to underworld kingdom of snakes. F92.7
• Bonga house filled with snakes, tigers, and lions. F221.2
• Trolls eat from golden dishes, but food is frogs and snakes. F455.4.2.2
• Ornaments of snakes, hornets, scorpions, dirt, and a toad. F827.3
• Extraordinary plow (made of snakes and drawn by tigers). F887.1
• Witch gives birth to toads and snakes after union with devil. G243.3.1
• Rectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour him. G328
• Ordeal by crocodiles (snakes). Judgment depends on whether person is devoured or rejected by crocodiles. H224
• Quest to land of snakes. H1289.1.2
• Frogs to eat insects, snakes to eat frogs. Snakes eat numskull's family. J2102.8
• Snakes in pond to be killed: eels also killed. J2114
• Ashes transformed into bees, wasps, scorpions and snakes drive invading army away for hero. K2351.2.2
• Men are too proud: snakes created. L482.3
• Prophecy: no snakes in Ireland. M318
• Prophecy: no snakes in Israel. M318.1
• Throwing into pit of snakes as punishment. Q465.1
• Toads and snakes devour corpse of rich man in his grave. Q491.4
• Punishment: taking snakes as foster children. Q594
• Snake carries into fire man who has banned snakes. Q597.1
• Prison filled with snakes. (Cf. Q465.1.) R41.3.1
• Escape from pit of snakes by means of rope. (Cf. Q465, R41.3.1.) R211.7
• Bridal chamber filled with coiled snakes. T172.1
• Saint banishes snakes. V229.3
• Saint turns snakes to stones. (Cf. D420.) V229.24
• "I surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?" W211.2
• Lies about snakes. X1321
• Lie: large number of snakes. X1321.2
• Lies about remarkable kinds of snakes. X1321.3
• Lie: imaginary snakes. X1396
• All snakes but one placated by music. In snake den prisoner fails to placate one snake and loses his life. Z355