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Motif

Transformation: man to tortoise (turtle).

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals. · view the constellation · filed as D193

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“In these battles there is much lightning, thunder, flight of fire-dragons, dark clouds which vomit burning hails of murderous weapons; swords, spears, and arrows fall from the sky on to the heads of the combatants; the earth trembles, the pillars of Heaven shake. Chun T'i One of these gifted warriors was Chun T'i, a Taoist of the Western Paradise, who appeared on the scene when the armies of the rival dynasties were facing each other.”

Myths & Legends of China, Chapter XIII · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals.

Filed beside it
Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.)Transformation: man to worm (often = snake)Transformation: man to crocodile. (Cf. B642.2.)Transformation: man to frog. (Cf. B643)Transformation: man to toadTransformation: man to lizardTransformation: man to snailTransformation: man to other animals than those already treated
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
God with three facesTransformation to escape deathMagic lotus-flower. (Cf. D965.6, D1641.15.)Magic fly-whiskMagic fly-whisk stops sword-thrusts. (Cf. D1287.)Magic wand breaks enemy's sword. (Cf. D1254.1.)

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