The Enchanted Snake
Italian fairy tale / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Enchanted Snake or The Snake is an Italian fairy tale. Giambattista Basile wrote a variant in the Pentamerone.[1] Andrew Lang drew upon this variant,[2] for inclusion in The Green Fairy Book.[3]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband. Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Daughter of the Skies, The Enchanted Pig, The Tale of the Hoodie, Master Semolina, The Sprig of Rosemary, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and White-Bear-King-Valemon.[2]