The constellation
D661 Transformation as punishment
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
keeps company
- Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif · F10 entry
- Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch · N325.1 entry
- Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh · N325.2 entry
- Mother kills son thinking him a wild beast · N325.3 entry
- Inhospitality punished. (Cf. P320, Q45, Q551.6.7, Q556.7, W158.) · Q292 entry
- Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) · Q416 entry
- Cowherd rescues abandoned child · R131.3.3 entry
- Child's ankles pierced before exposing him · S333 entry
- Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird · B51 entry
- Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) · C92.2 entry
cross-ref
carried in tale type
- The Magic Bird-heart · ATU 567
- The Princess who Scorned an Unloved Suitor is turned into a frog (mouse, etc · ATU 402*
- Bread Turned to Stone · ATU 751G*
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune XXXIII
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. V