Transformation: man to wolf

Motif

Transformation: man to wolf.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D113.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. VIII
Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 8
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter VIII

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Corpus poeticum Boreale I 136, 140, *Boberg
Italian Novella Rotunda
Greek myth Grote I 160
Finnish Aarne FFC VIII 14 No. 75, XXXIII 53 No. 75
Estonian Aarne FFC XXV 130 No. 73, 145 No. 38
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 428
general Dh III, Fb "blod" IV 48
general Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother". Irish myth: *Cross
general Eng., U.S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to canine animal (wild).

2 finer motifs beneath it

Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form God (goddess) assumes form of a wolf

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to bear Transformation man to fox Transformation: man to jackal Transformation: man to hyena

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Wer-tiger. Like werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.) Witch in form of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.) Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.)

Carried in tale types

Son of the Witch (previously The Disenchanted Husband: the Witch's Tasks) · ATU 425B 12 recorded variants
The Girl as Wolf · ATU 409 1 recorded variant

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