The constellation
D610 Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Goddess repeatedly transforms herself · D610.1 entry
- Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg · D611 entry
- Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations · D612 entry
- Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations · D615 entry
- Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her · D616 entry
keeps company
- 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
- Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) · D110 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The Faithless Wife · ATU 318
- The Corpse-Eater (previously The Vampire) · ATU 363
- The Three Oranges · ATU 408
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XIII
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XIV