Transformation: man to elephant

Motif

Transformation: man to elephant.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D114.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CXVII

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.

HinduPenzer VI 162
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 40
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 247, (Benga) Nassau 184 No. 24, (Basuto) Jacottet 90 No. 14, (Fang) Tessman 118.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to ungulate (wild).

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to bovine animal (wild)Transformation: man to swine (wild)Transformation: man to wild goat

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