Animal characteristics from transformation of animal — Mythoi

Motif

Animal characteristics from transformation of animal.

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

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Filed under Animal characteristics from transformation.

6 finer motifs beneath 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.) Spider transformed for greediness: now occupies dark corners. (Cf. A2433.5.3.) 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

Filed beside it

Animal characteristics from transformation of implement (or other object). (Cf. A2335.3.1, A2378.3.3, A2378.4.1.)

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