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

Filed across the traditions
  • 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.

Filed beside it
Transformation: house to stone Transformation: ship to stone Transformation: cheese to stone Transformation: salt to stone Transformation: tree to stone Transformation: poison to stone Animals turned into stones A candle becomes stone Water becomes rocks. (Cf. D478)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation: tree to animal 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: bread to serpents. (Cf. D444.1, D444.2, D469.11, D471.1.) Transformation: peas to stones. (Cf. D444.4, D471.1.) Food transformed
Carried in tale types

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