Transformation: oars and masts to serpents — Mythoi

Motif

Transformation: oars and masts to serpents.

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to animal. · view the constellation · filed as D444.11

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 333 n. 1. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. V

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: manufactured object to animal.

Filed beside it

Transformation: money of the hard-hearted to scorpions. (Cf. D444.2, D444.4, D469.11, D471.1) Transformation: meat to toad. Punishment for ungrateful son Transformation: pill to white rabbit Transformation: bread to serpents. (Cf. D444.1, D444.2, D469.11, D471.1.) Transformation: book-satchel to bird Transformation: drinking horn to dragon Transformation: armring to serpent Transformation: mortar to tigress Transformation: pouch to parts of body of ptarmigan Transformation: dress to animal

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird Tabu: killing sacred dragon. (Cf. B11.) Transformation to animal for breaking tabu Transformation: man to dolphin Transformation as punishment Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif Man kills son thinking that he is cutting a branch Women, driven mad, devour their infants' flesh Mother kills son thinking him a wild beast Punishment: drawing asunder by horses. (Cf. Q469.12.) Cowherd rescues abandoned child Child's ankles pierced before exposing him

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