Transformation to cow

Motif

Transformation to cow.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D133.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 1
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 1

Filed across the traditions

Greek Grote I 80
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 43, 52.
general *Type 473
general *Fb "ko" II 240b. Icelandic: Boberg

Within the index

Filed under Transformation to cow (bull, calf, etc.).

1 finer motif beneath it

Nisser in form of cows

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to bull. (Cf. B641.3.) Transformation: man to ox Transformation: man to calf Transformation: man to steer (bullock)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Reincarnation as cow. (Cf. D133.1.)

Carried in tale types

God Punishes a Bad Woman · ATU 750C 2 recorded variants
The House in the Forest · ATU 431 1 recorded variant

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