mother snake
animal_ally single tradition · 1
The mother snake is a vengeful figure in a folktale. She takes revenge on a farmer and his family for the death of her children by biting and killing them. She is later appeased by the farmer's daughter and restores the family to life after receiving an offering of milk.
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“The mother of the snake took revenge on the same night by biting the farmer, his wife and two children and they all died. The following day the farmer's only surviving daughter, distraught and grieved by the death of her parents and brothers, pleaded before the mother snake”
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