The constellation
D612 Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations
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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● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
carried in tale type
- The Magician and his Pupil · ATU 325
filed beside
- Goddess repeatedly transforms herself · D610.1 entry
- Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg · D611 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