Transformation: man to bear.
Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D113.2
Motif
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Scholars’ trail — 12references
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.
- LappishQvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75a
- Icelandic*Boberg
- Greek mythGrote I 162
- HinduPenzer VII 42 n. 1
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 217 No. 167
- Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 251f., (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 326, (Kodiak) Golder JAFL XX 297, XXII 10, (Cape York) Rasmussen III 124, 297, 211, (Greenland) Rink 193, (Bering Strait) Nelson RBAE XVIII 493, (West Greenland) Rasmussen II 96, 184, (East Greenland) Rasmussen I 184
- Africa (Ba Ronga)Einstein 249.
- general *Dh II 99
- general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 886 s. v. "Bär"
- general *Fb "bjørn" IV 43a, "hvidbjørn" I 701a
- general N. Am. Indian (Joshua): Farrand-Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 241 No. 20
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