Explore "Zlatovlaska the Golden-Haired: the Story of Yirik and the Snake" by Parker Fillmore on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
There was once an old king who was so wise that he was able to understand the speech of all the animals in the world. This is how it happened. An old woman came to him one day bringing him a snake in a basket.
"If you have this snake cooked," she told him, "and eat it as you would a fish, then you will be able to understand the birds of the air, the beasts of the earth, and the fishes of the sea."