μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: pill to white rabbit.

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to animal. · view the constellation · filed as D444.3

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“The practical effect of this worship is seen in the following examples taken from the Chinese list of one hundred and twenty-nine lucky and unlucky stars, which, with the sixty cycle-stars and the twenty-eight constellations, besides a vast multitude of others, make up the celestial galaxy worshipped by China's millions: the Orphan Star enables a woman to become a man; the Star of Pleasure decides on betrothals, binding the feet of…”

Myths & Legends of China, Chapter V · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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 sonTransformation: bread to serpents. (Cf. D444.1, D444.2, D469.11, D471.1.)Transformation: book-satchel to birdTransformation: drinking horn to dragonTransformation: armring to serpentTransformation: mortar to tigressTransformation: pouch to parts of body of ptarmiganTransformation: dress to animalTransformation: oars and masts to serpents
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Stars as deitiesOrigin of constellationsOrigin of particular starsBird of dawn. Golden plumage; three feetBird announces time for sunrise and sunsetHelpful magpieAnimals serve as bridge across streamGiant serpentTabu: looking at supernatural wife nakedTransformation: man to smokeMagic cakeMagic cudgel (club)

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