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
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75a
- Icelandic *Boberg
- Greek myth Grote I 162
- Hindu Penzer VII 42 n. 1
- India Thompson-Balys
- Chinese Eberhard 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
Within the index
Filed under Transformation: man to canine animal (wild).
1 finer motif beneath it
Filed beside it
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