The constellation
A1710 Creation of animals through transformation. (Cf. A1811.1, A1833.2, A1861.1, A1861.2, A1863, A1887)
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- Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamity · A1711 entry
- Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms · A1713 entry
- Animals from various transformed objects · A1714 entry
- Animals from transformed man. (Cf. A2005, A2011.2.) · A1715 entry
- Animals from transformed ogre or giant · A1716 entry
- Animals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human) · A1724 entry
- Animals from parts of body of deity or saint · A1725 entry
- Primordial animal mutilated to produce present form · A1727 entry
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- Cat from transformed eagle. Eagle mistakes stick of wood for fish and gets feet caught. Wind blows off feathers and makes hair. (Cf. A1710.) · A1811.1 entry
- Wolf from man transformed by magician. (Cf. A1710.) · A1833.2 entry
- Monkeys from children hidden by Eve when God visited her. (Cf. A1650.1, A1710.) · A1861.1 entry
- Creation of monkeys: old woman thrown into fire. In unsuccessful imitation of Christ, the smith throws an old woman into the fire. She becomes a monkey. (Cf. A1710.) · A1861.2 entry
- Creation of baboon · A1863 entry
- Creation of elephant · A1887 entry
- Creation of bat · A1895 entry
- Creation of titmouse. (Cf. A1710.) · A1918 entry
- Gull from transformed cat. A cat catches a strong fish with her claws. The fish carries the cat on its back to the sea, where the gull originates from the cat. (Cf. A1710.) · A1945.1 entry
- Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) · A1945.2 entry
- Creation of hoopoe. Transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.) · A1952 entry
- Woodpecker from devil's herdsman transformed. The devil strikes his herdsman so that he turns into a bird who continually calls after his beloved cow. (Cf. A1710.) · A1957.1 entry
- Creation of owl. (Cf. A1710.) · A1958 entry
- The owl is a baker's daughter who objected to the size of the dough put into the oven for Jesus when he appeared in her house as a beggar · A1958.0.1 entry
- Bittern from Pilate transformed. (Cf. A1710.) · A1965.1 entry
- Bittern from transformed shepherd. (Cf. A1710, A2261.1.) · A1965.2 entry