Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.)

Motif

Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals. · view the constellation · filed as D191

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“According to another legend, Thetis bore seven sons, of whom Achilles was the seventh; she destroyed the first six by throwing them into the fire or into a kettle of boiling water to see whether they were mortal or to make them immortal by consuming the merely mortal portion cf their frame; and the seventh son, Achilles, would have perished in like manner, if his father Peleus had not snatched him from the fire at the moment when as…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIIIThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus II 67 n. 6

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ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXIVLXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires

Scholars’ trail — 18references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our public shelf are live links; research-library references point to an exact index page without serving the book; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 67 n. 6 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII
JewishNeuman
India*Thompson-Balys, Penzer IX 45. – English: *Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother" → research library: Stith Thompson and Jonas Balys, The Oral Tales of India, p. 101
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "serpent"
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 296 No. 21
New BritainDixon 117
Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 135
Eskimo (Greenland)Thalbitzer Phonetic Study of Eskimo Language (København, 1904) 5
general *Type 433 → research library: Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography, p. 147
general *BP III 89 n. 2
general *E Hoffmann-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 1
general R. M. Meyer Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 4
general Köhler-Bolte II 435ff.
general *Krappe Études 53ff.
general Hartland Science 244–7
general *Fb "orm" II 759b. – Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 54 (Bolverk), Boberg → research library: John Arnott MacCulloch, Eddic Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, Vol. II), p. 54
general American Indian (Seneca): Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 112 No. 14
general (Plains Ojibwa): Skinner JAFL XXXII 303 No. 7, (Ladino): Conzemius BBAE CVI 130f.

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Filed under Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals.

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Lucifer as serpent

Filed beside it

Transformation: man to worm (often = snake)Transformation: man to tortoise (turtle)Transformation: man to crocodile. (Cf. B642.2.)Transformation: man to frog. (Cf. B643)Transformation: man to toad Transformation: man to lizard Transformation: man to snail Transformation: man to other animals than those already treated

Travels with

Marriage to person in snake form. (Cf. D191.)Reincarnation as snake. (Cf. D191.)Childless woman adopts a serpent (transformed man). (Cf. D191.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal)Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic meat Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.)Immortality by burning Protean transformation of water-spirit Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction

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