Transformation: serpent (snake) to person

Motif

Transformation: serpent (snake) to person.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: animal to person. · Transformation: reptiles and miscellaneous animals to persons. · view the constellation · filed as D391

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 389, 423
ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 169, 185
Africa (Kaffir)Theal 52, (Zulu): Callaway 321, (Basuto): Jacottet 134 No. 19, 146 No. 20.
general Dickson 55 n. 71. Italian Novella: Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: reptiles and miscellaneous animals to persons.

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