Animals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human)

Motif

Animals from transformed parts of the body (animal or human).

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1724

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of animals through transformation. (Cf. A1811.1, A1833.2, A1861.1, A1861.2, A1863, A1887).

3 finer motifs beneath it

Animals from body of slain person Animals from transformed hair All living things from Jesus' spattered blood

Filed beside it

Animals from transformations after deluge or world calamity Creator sent for water: Meantime animals assume present forms Animals from various transformed objects Animals from transformed man. (Cf. A2005, A2011.2.)Animals from transformed ogre or giant Animals from parts of body of deity or saint Primordial animal mutilated to produce present form

Travels with

Snake from blood of slain monster. Medusa. (Cf. A1724, A2001.)

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