Transformation: image of animal vivified. (Cf. D435)

Motif

Transformation: image of animal vivified. (Cf. D435)

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to animal. · view the constellation · filed as D445

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 234
N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 357 n. 287i.
general Dh. II 72ff. – India: Thompson-Balys

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: object to animal.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Image of horse vivified Images of parrots vivified Image of golden calf vivified

Filed beside it

Transformation: vegetable form to animal Transformation: mineral form to animal Transformation: manufactured object to animal Transformation: parts of animal or human body to animal Transformation: miscellaneous objects to animals

Travels with

Magic object vitalizes. (Cf. D445.)Transformation: image to person. (Cf. D445.)

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