Wer-tiger. Like werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.)

Motif

Wer-tiger. Like werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D112.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
general Korea: Zong in-Sob 58, 71, 74, 79, 85, 89, 91.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to tiger.

2 finer motifs beneath it

When a wer-tiger is injured, similar marks appear on the human body of man who has possessed it Village of tiger-men. (Cf. B221.6.1.)

Travels with

Transformation: man to wolf

wander