Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. [75], Tale type 425M is known in Finland as Uuza Vedenkuningas ("Uuza the King of Waters"), according to the Finnish Folktale Catalogue, established by scholar Pirkko-Liisa Rausmaa. [59], In a Lithuanian variant, Das Mdchen und die Schlange ("The Girl and the Snake"), a widow lives with her daughter in a house at the beach. It is an instinctive fear. ""Egl ali karalien": gyvybs ir mirties domenas" ["Egl the queen of serpents": domain of life and death]. She is the sister of Vasuki, king of Nagas and wife of sage Jagatkaru. Human suitors test their skills. [1] The tale features not only humanreptile shapeshifting, but irreversible humantree shapeshifting as well. . . ; . . The girl visits her family, but her brothers consult with a nearby witch, who reveals the sons know how to summon their father. The girl rushes back to the lake and, seeing her dead husband, curses her two children to become white swans and herself a gray cuckoo. The Nagas ( Sanskrit: , romanized : Nga) [1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld ( Patala ), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. She tries to summon her husband, but, realizing something is wrong, she finds the snake's body. 81-82. Crying, the girl becomes a birch near the shore, while her children become trees. According to some. (2016). [95], According to Russian scholarship, the tale type 425M sometimes merges with ATU 703, "The Snow-Maiden" in many Russian variants. However, he is rescued by a mysterious man with greenish hair who introduces himself as Zaltis, the King of the Lakes. , . " . She was the patron goddess of Athens, defended many beloved heroes, and even fought alongside the Greeks in the Trojan War. In this tale, three sisters are bathing in the water. The elder two leave the lake and, take their garments and go home. Ein Schlangenmrchen als identittsstiftende Erzhlung der Balten". Philologist and folklorist Julian Krzyanowski (. She agrees to his proposal and the snake comes later to take her to his underground palace. Perseus was the son of Danae, daughter of Acrisius the King of Argos, and Zeus. B Brunhild (11 P) C Clodhna (12 P) F Fairy Queens (9 P) G Queens in Greek mythology (4 C, 142 P) Q Egl the Queen of Serpents, alternatively Egl the Queen of Grass Snakes ( Lithuanian: Egl ali karalien ), is a Lithuanian folk tale, first published by M. Jasewicz in 1837. While some elements of the original mythology remained, the character's evolution did not . Jegle is happy to visit her father, but her brothers secretly decide to take her back from the King of the Lakes. [77], Author August Lwis de Menar[de] collected a variant from the village of Voloitsa (Valyanitsy), on the Soikino peninsula. Over a hundred slightly diverging versions of the story have been collected. The brothers go to the lake, summon the snake with the song and kill him as soon as he appears. 585 ff (trans. The next morning, Mirzhan goes back to the shore to summon her husband, but she only sees a red tint in the river and her husband's head near the reeds. She made humans one at a time with clay. [90], The tale type is known in Russia as Zhena Uzha ("The Snake's Wife"),[91][92][93] or The Grass Snake's Wife. To the princess's surprise, the snake becomes a man at night, and after a year she gives birth to a son. Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Hecate (Hekate) is a goddess of Greek mythology capable of both good and evil. [113], Africanist Sigrid Schmidt stated that in African tales, the secret song known only by heroine and husband and learned by others who use it to betray the couple "connects also with the East European tale of The Snake as Bridegroom". Some time later, the princess takes her daughters and prepares to return home by summoning her snake husband, the boat appears dirtied with her husband's blood. Later, an old woman pays a visit to Jegle in search of her, and she turns into a woman, saying she brings news from Jegle's bridegroom, Zaltis, and bids the girl meets him by the edge of the lake the following day. A group of boys overhears the incantation and summons Papa-Water to kill him. The serpent frequently appears in myths and legends. Manannn mac Lir is a sea deity and referred to as the first ruler of the Manx Nation and very closely linked with the Isle of Man. [41], A quantitative study, published by folklorist Sara Graa da Silva and anthropologist Jamshid J. Tehrani in 2016, seemed to indicate that the tale type shows a certain antiquity: based on a phylogenetic model, both researchers estimated that the ATU 425M type belongs to an "ancestral tale corpora" of the Balto-Slavic languages. The girl becomes a weeping birch and her son a tree branch. [15] A bronze sculpture displaying Egl and the Serpent by Robertas Antinis has been constructed in Palanga Botanical Garden, Lithuania in 1960. Jrmungandr is a famous sea creature from Norse mythology known as the Midgard Serpent or the World Serpent. The snake promises to give it back if she marries it. "TENDENCIES OF THE FORMATION AND USAGE OF BALTIC NOUNS WITH SUFFIX -UT- IN LITHUANIA". Three weeks later, the snake comes to get his bride in a grand golden carriage. The girl returns home that same evening and the reptile comes to take his bride. ". One day, the girl is sent to wash some clothes at the beach when a wave crashes and carries them away. [3] URL: "Ji pagrstai gali bti laikoma balt lietuvi ir latvi pasaka, nes daugiausia jos variant urayta Lietuvoje ir Latvijoje." Three years pass, and the snake's human wife has given birth to a boy and a girl. He gives in on three conditions: She is not to embrace a single soul, not even her mother; she has to leave the baby behind as a hostage; and she will return by the bells of the evening vespers. [65][66], In a Latvian tale from Ansis Lerhis-Pukaitis's (lv) collection, from Jelgava, translated into Hungarian with the title Hogyan lett a kakukk? [3] [4] [5] Camasb gets stuck in a cave after he tries to steal honey with a few friends, his friends leave him alone in the cave. Salomja Nris, a Lithuanian poet, wrote a poem called Egl ali karalien (1940), which is based on the motifs of the tale. Le projet du Dictionnaire de motifs et de contes-types tiologiques chez les slaves orientaux. The next day, the girl and her daughters go back to the lake. Speaking in a human voice, the grass snake repeatedly agrees to go away only after Egl pledges herself to him in exchange for him leaving her clothes. However, the princess's younger brother mimics her voice and tricks the snake into coming out of the water, only to be beheaded by the princess's brothers. " - " [NON-FAIRY PROZE OF VELIZHSKY REGION IN SMOLENSK DISTRICT - GENERAL AND SPECIAL IN LOCAL TRADITION]. In: Luven, Yvonne. Facts: Hephaestus made all of the weapons and armor for Mount Olympus. In: This page was last edited on 17 April 2023, at 14:40. "Buto is the Greek name for the town where her worship centered in the Nile Delta" (Babb . [112], Folklorist Terrence Hansen, in his catalogue of Latin American folktales, identified two tale types wherein a girl meets an enchanted fish and is taught magic to summon fish (in one type) or to bring fresh water (in the other). A similar assessment was made by professor Jack V. Haney, to whom the tale type appears "only around the south Baltic coast". Numerology is also evident in the tale, such as twelve sons, three daughters, three days, three tricks, three weeks of feast, nine years under the oath of marriage, three tasks given to Egl by her husband to fulfill and nine days of visits. "Lietuvi pasak tyrim imtmetis: nuo tradicins komparatyvistikos iki iuolaikini metod" [Hundred years of the Lithuanian folktale research: from the traditional comparativism to the modern methods]. His hands were made up of 100 coiled snakes. The woman takes a scythe and goes to the river to summon the reptile husband to kill him. When conversing with her mother, the maiden unwittingly revealed her husband's name (Osip) and the incantation to summon him. [2], The tale was also collected by Polish writer Jzef Ignacy Kraszewski and published in his historical work Litwa. Afterwards, returning to the shore to get dressed, she found a serpent in her clothes. Cumba follows her sister to a location near the water, and sees Sira chanting a song to summon an enchanted serpent from the waters. The snake asks the girl to be his wife and to live with him in his crystal palace. Again the mother tells him to leave them alone, after which the goblin says their child is hungry and crying. When Herakles was travelling through her realm with the cattle of Geryon, she stole some of the herd and insisted the hero mate with her before she would return . naga, (Sanskrit: "serpent") in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, a member of a class of mythical semidivine beings, half human and half cobra. In Greek and Roman mythology, the snake symbolizes a guardian spirit and was inscribed on many altars. In: . On the wedding night, the snake kills her. Zobarskas, Stepas. : . . When evening falls the mother forbids her daughter to go even when the bells are ringing. The uncles go to the beach, sing the song to summon the snake man and kill him. She then questions her sons if any of them told anything about the secret song, and the youngest answers that he did. When the girl goes to the shore to return to her husband, she summons him and sees his head floating in the water. Zuhra runs back home and tells her mother everything, and they fence the house, hoping it will keep the snake out. In this variant, The Water Snake or Ujak, an old woman's daughter went to bathe with other girls in the pond. She marries the reptile, which lies on the rivers, and she has two children with him when he becomes human. Nagas and Lamias Zaltis takes Jegle back to their palace, and explains her brothers will be restored to normal after a while. In mythology, the serpent symbolises fertility and procreation, wisdom, death, and resurrection (due to the shedding of its skin, which is not akin to rebirth), and in the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol of 'The Word' was the serpent. Both of them had twelve sons and three daughters. . 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