μῦθοι Mythoi
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

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation: man to wolf

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