The constellation
D191 Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.)
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
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● on the shelf
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The same sky, in words
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beneath it
- Lucifer as serpent · D191.1 entry
keeps company
- Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another · D610 entry
- Protean transformation of water-spirit · F420.4.1.1 entry
- Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer · H105.1 entry
- Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms · H1578.2 entry
- Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction · K1321.1 entry
- Accidental death through misdirected weapon · N337 entry
- Slain person dismembered · S139.2 entry
- Achilles heel. Invulnerability except in one spot · Z311 entry
- Magic meat · D1032 entry
- Magic sword · D1081 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XIII