Transformation to likeness of another person

Motif

Transformation to likeness of another person.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Transformation to likeness of another person. · view the constellation · filed as D40

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Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
Irish myth*Cross
Italian NovellaRotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys
JewishNeuman
GreekGrote I 80
Africa (Fang)Tessman 141f.
general *Type 363
general BP III 534 n. 1. Wells 30 (Uther Pendragon)
general Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 211, (Cape York) Rasmussen III 54

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Transformation to likeness of person whose shield one carries. (Cf. D1101.1)Transformation to likeness of another woman Humble man in guise of exalted God in guise of mortal Transformation: mortal to guise of deity Mortal in guise of spirit Persons exchange forms Transformation to likeness of monster Transformation to likeness of another person – miscellaneous

Carried in tale types

The Corpse-Eater (previously The Vampire) · ATU 3631 recorded variant

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