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Transformation through curse.

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation through power of the word. · view the constellation · filed as D525

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys, Penzer VI 16, VIII 140ff.
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
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Filed under Transformation through power of the word.

1 finer motif beneath it
Despondent mother curses herself and children into trees
Filed beside it
Transformation through wish Transformation through magic word (charm). (Cf. D1273.) Transformation through song. (Cf. D1275.) Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.) Transformation by scolding Transformation through power of the word – miscellaneous

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