ABSTRACT: This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that these narratives can be interpreted as examples of initiation. The snake’s association with wisdom is a common motif in Scandinavian folklore,stretching back at least to the Middle Ages. The author argues that folklore accounts of eating a white snake correspond symbolically to initiation. Different texts explain and legitimise how certain persons gain abilities such as wisdom, second sight, and the ability to understand the language of birds or other animals. This motif shows continuity over time and space and does not have to have taken place as an actual ritual for theinterpretation to be valid, particularly as, in the 19th cent...
The dragon is one of the most ubiquitous of images — from its appearance in the dreams of indi...
Serpentine cryptids are to be found in stories throughout the world, invariably representing a provo...
In this study, the snake will be analysied in the Sumerian, Egyptian, Indian and Turkish myths. Arc...
This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
Snakes have played a major role in folklore and myth for as long as humans have been telling stories...
Mircea Eliade describes mythic narratives as telling “a sacred history … [by] disclos[ing] their [Su...
Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural power...
International audienceIn two great caves decorated in the Paleolithic : Montespan and Le Tuc d’Audou...
The goal of this article is to conduct comparative and structural-semantic research into belief narr...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
Papers from the third international seminar on Ancient Arcadia, held at the Norwegian Institute at A...
The serpent is a universal symbol in mythologies that prevail in all civilizationsand folklore throu...
Many articles have been devoted to the Old Norse myth which relates how Odin was hanging from a tree...
In its simplest form, the Bosom Serpent legend complex includes any story in which a person believes...
The dragon is one of the most ubiquitous of images — from its appearance in the dreams of indi...
Serpentine cryptids are to be found in stories throughout the world, invariably representing a provo...
In this study, the snake will be analysied in the Sumerian, Egyptian, Indian and Turkish myths. Arc...
This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
Snakes have played a major role in folklore and myth for as long as humans have been telling stories...
Mircea Eliade describes mythic narratives as telling “a sacred history … [by] disclos[ing] their [Su...
Since time immemorial the snake has been venerated as an enigmatic creature with supernatural power...
International audienceIn two great caves decorated in the Paleolithic : Montespan and Le Tuc d’Audou...
The goal of this article is to conduct comparative and structural-semantic research into belief narr...
A short Hippocratic passage (Epidemiae 5: 86) might constitute the earliest Western surviving varian...
Papers from the third international seminar on Ancient Arcadia, held at the Norwegian Institute at A...
The serpent is a universal symbol in mythologies that prevail in all civilizationsand folklore throu...
Many articles have been devoted to the Old Norse myth which relates how Odin was hanging from a tree...
In its simplest form, the Bosom Serpent legend complex includes any story in which a person believes...
The dragon is one of the most ubiquitous of images — from its appearance in the dreams of indi...
Serpentine cryptids are to be found in stories throughout the world, invariably representing a provo...
In this study, the snake will be analysied in the Sumerian, Egyptian, Indian and Turkish myths. Arc...