Devil as cat.
Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D142.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXIVLXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
- SlavicRussian Folk-Tales, Chapter VI
- Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Tempest Act 2
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter IV
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- general *Kittredge Witchcraft 178 nn. 37–44 passim.