Transformation: man to ass. (Cf. B641.4.)

Motif

Transformation: man to ass. (Cf. B641.4.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D132.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, A Midsummer-Night's Dream Act 3
Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 79LXXIX. THE DRUNKEN SONG.

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Types 430, 567
general *Chauvin II 183 No. 23
general *K. Weinhold Über das Märchen vom Eselmenschen (Sitzungsb. d. K. Pr. Akad. Berlin [1893] 475–488)
general Cosquin Études 512ff.
general Wesselski Theorie 22. – Breton: *Sébillot Incidents s. v. "âne"

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to ass (mule, jennet, etc.).

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to mule

Travels with

Marriage to person in ass form. (Cf. D132.1.)Transformation by eating vegetable. (Cf. D983.)

Carried in tale types

The Magic Bird-heart · ATU 5672 recorded variants

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