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Motif

Transformation: man to whale.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D127.3

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“He put it on and went away, and thought of the King's daughter, forgot the giants, and walked continually onward. At length he sighed from the very bottom of his heart, and cried, " Ah, if I were but at the Castle of the Golden Sun," and hardly had the words passed his lips than he was standing on a high mountain before the gate of the castle. He entered and went through all the rooms, until in the last he found the King's daughter.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 197 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to sea mammal.

Filed beside it
Transformation: man to sealTransformation: man to otterTransformation: man to walrusTransformation: man to dolphinTransformation: man to porpoise. Marquesas: Handy 92; Tonga: Gifford 77
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating bison (buffalo)Witch transforms person to animal. (Cf. D100.)Suitors assigned quests

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