Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.)

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Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation through power of the word. · view the constellation · filed as D526

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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.

general *Dh II 191ff.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation through power of the word.

Filed beside it

Transformation through wish Transformation through magic word (charm). (Cf. D1273.)Transformation through song. (Cf. D1275.)Transformation through curse Transformation by scolding Transformation through power of the word – miscellaneous

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Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics

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