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Motif

Transformation to person of different sex.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Transformation to person of different sex. · view the constellation · filed as D10

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *H. Gaidoz "Du changement de sexe dans les contes celtiques" Revue de l'histoire des religions LVII 317ff.
  • general *Chauvin VIII 43 No. 11
  • general *Penzer VII 42ff., 223ff.
  • general *Fb "menneske" II 577b, "kvinde" II 339b
  • general *Brown JAOS XLVII 3
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 752
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human being Change of sex after crossing water Transformation woman to man Transformation: man to woman
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Change of sex by exchange with a yaksa (ogre). (Cf. D10.) Mountain spirits change sex at will. (Cf. D10.)

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