Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.)

Motif

Sea formed from giant's spittle. (Cf. D1001.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to object. · Size of object transformed. · view the constellation · filed as D483

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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.

IndonesianDeVries Volksverhalen II 285.

Within the index

Filed under Size of object transformed.

1 finer motif beneath it

River expands and becomes sea

Filed beside it

Things miraculously stretched or shortened if needed by a saint Stretching objects Transformation: stretching fingers to make ladder Person becomes larger Animal becomes larger Houses magically made larger Objects made larger – miscellaneous

Travels with

Magic spittle

wander