The constellation
D615 Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations
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- Transformation to reach difficult place · D641 entry
- Transformation to escape difficult situation · D642 entry
- Transformation to receive food · D655 entry
- Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) · E30 entry
- Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives · E32 entry
- Resuscitation with missing member. In reassembling the members, one has been inadvertently omitted. The resuscitated person or animal lacks this member · E33 entry
- Resuscitation with misplaced head. (Cf. M221.) In restoration of several persons simultaneously through reassembling of members, the heads are placed on the wrong bodies. Sometimes the damage is repaired, sometimes not · E34 entry
- Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif · F10 entry
- Poison of hydra corrodes the skin · F1041.5 entry
- Visit to star-world · F15 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK II, ch. VII
- The Kalevala · Rune XXVIII
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XIV
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 39