μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: bread to stone. As punishment. (Cf. D441.1, D444.2, D444.4, D476.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to object. · Transformation: material of object changed. · view the constellation · filed as D471.1

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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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg.
  • general Type 368*
  • general *BP III 168, 462
  • general Fb "sten" III 553b, 554a
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 1599
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: object to stone.

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Transformation: house to stoneTransformation: ship to stoneTransformation: cheese to stoneTransformation: salt to stoneTransformation: tree to stoneTransformation: poison to stoneAnimals turned into stonesA candle becomes stoneWater becomes rocks. (Cf. D478)
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Transformation: tree to animalTransformation: 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: peas to stones. (Cf. D444.4, D471.1.)Food transformed
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