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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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 67 n. 6 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Penzer IX 45. – English: *Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother"
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "serpent"
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 296 No. 21
  • New Britain Dixon 117
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 135
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Thalbitzer Phonetic Study of Eskimo Language (København, 1904) 5
  • general *Type 433
  • 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
  • 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.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals.

1 finer motif beneath it
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 (Thompson’s cf.)
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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