Animals turned into stones

Motif

Animals turned into stones.

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to object. · Transformation: material of object changed. · view the constellation · filed as D471.8

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general *Loomis White Magic 80f.

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Filed under Transformation: object to stone.

1 finer motif beneath it

Stolen chickens turned to stones in cooking

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Transformation: bread to stone. As punishment. (Cf. D441.1, D444.2, D444.4, D476.)Transformation: house to stone Transformation: ship to stone Transformation: cheese to stone Transformation: salt to stone Transformation: tree to stone Transformation: poison to stone A candle becomes stone Water becomes rocks. (Cf. D478)

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