The Baltic house snakes in an Indo-European context
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The Baltic house snakes in an Indo-European context
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Indo-European ecologies: cattle and milk - snakes and water. Stockholm : Stockholm University Press, 2025. P. 191-212
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ENThis chapter deals with the phenomenon of milk-drinking snakes in Lithuanian and Latvian folklore and ritual practices. While this motif was predominantly documented during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older chronicles provide evidence of the significance of snakes in early Baltic religious practices. This study aims to explore the origins of the Baltic house snakes and shed light on the ritual and folkloristic practices that involve milk and snakes within the Baltic tradition.
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10.16993/bcu.h
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