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Motif

Transformation: man to feather.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to object. · Transformation: man to object – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as D275

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“Then they exchanged arrows, the Sun giving him four arrows of his own. The points of these arrows were made of coal." Now the young man began to climb the mountain. When he came up to the goats, he took one of the arrows, aimed it, and shot. It struck the animals, but fell down without killing it. The same happened with the other arrows. When he had spent all his arrows, they rushed up to him from the four sides, intending to kill him.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 39 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • TahitiBeckwith Myth 37
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 310 n. 117a.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to object – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Transformation: man to meatTransformation: man to eggTransformation: man to stormTransformation: man to waterTransformation: man (woman) to islandTransformation: man to fireTransformation: man to ashesTransformation: man to moundTransformation: man to mountainTransformation: man to hairTransformation: man to starTransformation into puff of dustTransformation: man to spittle
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-lawAnimal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.)Animal as guard of person or houseGuardian animals evadedProtean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to begTransformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformationsTransformation to reach difficult placeTransformation to escape difficult situationTransformation to receive foodBurning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.)Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.)Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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