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Transformation: man to stone.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to object. · Transformation: man to a mineral form. · view the constellation · filed as D231

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“As he was returning from the hunt, there met him heralds sent by Erginus to receive the tribute from the Thebans. Now the Thebans paid tribute to Erginus for the following reason. Clymenus, king of the Minyans, was wounded with a cast of a stone by a charioteer of Menoeceus, named Perieres, in a precinct of Poseidon at Onchestus; and being carried dying to Orchomenus, he with his last breath charged his son Erginus to avenge his death.”

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

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Scholars’ trail — 20references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • LithuanianBalys Legends Nos. 503f.
  • England*Baughman
  • GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3, 343 (Niobe) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • India*Thompson-Balys, Tawney 123
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 94, 119, 209
  • JapaneseIkeda
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 61
  • TuamotuStimson MS (T-G 3/6)
  • MarquesasHandy 106
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 65, 191, 342, 422
  • TongaGifford 183, Mono Alu: Wheeler 25, 66
  • New HebridesCodrington 367
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Rink 219, 464, Rasmussen III 152, 194, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 172, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 84, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 159, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 505, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 172. – American Indian (Central Brazil): Ehrenreich Int. Cong. Americanists XIV 662, (Snuqualmi and Snohomish): Haeberlin JAFL XXXVII 378. – Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38, (Kaffir): Theal 101.
  • general *Types 303, 471, 516
  • general *Fb "sten" III 553b
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 572f.
  • general *Chauvin VI No. 273, *58 No. 222, VII 83 No. 373bis n. 1, 98 No. 375
  • general *Loomis White Magic 80. Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Italian novella: Rotunda
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to a mineral form.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation: man to millstoneTransformation: man to marble column
Filed beside it
Transformation: man to shellTransformation: man (woman) to golden objectTransformation: man to coralTransformation: man to saltTransformation: man to oilTransformation: man to pumice
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrificeNuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite timePetrification by glanceTransformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce womanMagic sandalsMagic capMagic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.)Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.)Night magically lengthenedThree women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.)Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.)Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings
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