Bad women combination of nine different animals

Motif

Bad women combination of nine different animals.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1371.2

Cited in the index

general Stiefel Zs. f. Vksk. VIII 163.

Within the index

Filed under Why women are bad.

Filed beside it

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

The Nine Skins of the Women · ATU 1368** 1 recorded variant

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