Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them

Motif

Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges them.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1371.1

Filed across the traditions

Flemish DeMeyer FFC XXXVII 83 No. 11b.
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3047, Balys Legends Nos. 82–93.

Within the index

Filed under Why women are bad.

Filed beside it

Bad women combination of nine different animals Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics

Carried in tale types

Changing Heads (previously Changing Heads with the Devil) · ATU 1169 1 recorded variant

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