μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: man to dog. (Cf. B641.1.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D141

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“Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept, and washed herself there in a clear stream. It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep. Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and drojDped some of its blood on the Queen's apron and on her dress.”

— Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 76 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 20references

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.

  • Irish*Cross
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3655
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys, Penzer VIII 141
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 1205
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 349
  • TuamotuStimson MS (z-G. 13/52)
  • MaoriClark 50
  • SurinamAlexander Lat. Am 274
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 347 n. 247, 248, (Canadian Dakota): Wallis JAFL XXXVI 90 No. 22
  • Eskimo (Labrador)Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 156.
  • general *Type 652
  • general BP II 121 (Grimm Nos. 76, 30a)
  • general Types 449*, 726*
  • general *Fb "hund" I 676b, "blod" IV 48a, "lys" II 483b
  • general *Dh II 101
  • general **Jijena Sanchez
  • general *Kittredge Arthur 170 n. 3
  • general Chauvin V 3 No. 2, *5 No. 443–Icelandic: *Boberg
  • general Korea: Zong in-Sob 64 No. 35
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal).

3 finer motifs beneath it
KynanthropyMen and women transformed to dogs by druidic spellTransformation: woman to bitch
Filed beside it
Transformation: man to horseTransformation: man to ass (mule, jennet, etc.)Transformation to cow (bull, calf, etc.)Transformation: man to goat (he-goat, she-goat, kid etc.)Transformation: man to sheepTransformation: man to swineTransformation: man to cat
Travels with
Marriage to person in dog form. (Cf. B635.4, D141.)Man reincarnated as dog. (Cf. D141.)Witch in form of dog. (Cf. D141.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Disenchantment by covering with clothMagic results produced by wishingRecognition by unique ability to perform magic act
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