The constellation
D231 Transformation: man to stone
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● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
- Transformation: man to millstone · D231.1 entry
- Transformation: man to marble column · D231.2 entry
keeps company
- Petrification by glance · D581 entry
- Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman · D658.2 entry
- Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) · F512.1.2 entry
- Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.) · F513.1.1 entry
- Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings · F526.3 entry
- Quest for Gorgon's head · H1332.3 entry
- Theft from three old women who have but a single eye among them. The hero seizes their eye · K333.2 entry
- Rescue of princess (maiden) from dragon · R111.1.3 entry
- Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask) · S141 entry
- Cast-off wife and child exposed in boat · S431.1 entry
carried in tale type
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK II, ch. IV