The constellation
C962 Transformation to animal for breaking tabu
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
keeps company
- Transformation: man to dolphin · D127.5 entry
- Transformation: oars and masts to serpents · D444.11 entry
- Transformation as punishment · D661 entry
- Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif · F10 entry
- Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch · N325.1 entry
- Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh · N325.2 entry
- Mother kills son thinking him a wild beast · N325.3 entry
- Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) · Q416 entry
- Cowherd rescues abandoned child · R131.3.3 entry
- Child's ankles pierced before exposing him · S333 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. V