Transformation: man to cat

Motif

Transformation: man to cat.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to domestic beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D142

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

French Cosquin No. 11
German Grimm No. 130a → on our shelf: Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 130
India Thompson-Balys
Tonga Gifford 20
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 400 ff.
general Types 402, 566
general Fb "blod" IV 48a, "kat" II 108a
general Taylor MPh XVII (1919) 59 n. 8. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "chat"

Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it

Transformation: woman to cat Devil as cat God assumes form of a cat

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to horse Transformation: 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 sheep Transformation: man to swine Transformation: man to dog. (Cf. B641.1.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.) Witch in form of cat. (Cf. D142.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Treasure produced by goat's entrails Transformation: man to dove Magic entrails of goat Brave soldier and timid cabinet-maker as companions

Carried in tale types

The Fight on the Bridge · ATU 300A 2 recorded variants

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