Spider transformed for greediness: now occupies dark corners. (Cf. A2433.5.3.)

Motif

Spider transformed for greediness: now occupies dark corners. (Cf. A2433.5.3.)

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Various causes of animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics from transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A2261.2

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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.

Gold CoastBarker and Sinclair 69 No. 10.

Within the index

Filed under Animal characteristics from transformation of animal.

Filed beside it

Shepherd transformed to bird still calls sheep: explanation of bird cries. Usually told of hoopoe and bittern. (Cf. A1952, A1965.2, A2275.3, A2425, A2426.2.3, A2426.2.4.)Catfish transformed from woman still carries women's tatoo marks Woodpecker transformed from stingy woman: therefore stingy Weeping man turned into owl; still bewails sorrows Snipe messenger for warriors because he was a messenger when a man

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Haunts of spider. (Cf. A2211.6, large stones, A2261.2, dusty corners.)

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