Transformation by putting on skin. By putting on the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal, a person is transformed to that animal

Motif

Transformation by putting on skin. By putting on the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal, a person is transformed to that animal.

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation by putting on skin, clothing, etc. · view the constellation · filed as D531

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““I am sure I saw it before you,” said the first speaker again, “and, therefore, it is mine.” “Well, you may have the box, but its contents shall belong to me,” replied the other. They picked up the box, and began to carry it, but finding it somewhat heavy and being anxious to know what it con- tained, they stopped to untie it. “If there are many things in there, I shall have some of them,”’ said the first speaker, who rued her bargain.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 40 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 40 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

Icel.Völsunga saga ch. 8
Irish myth*Cross
EnglishChild II 494, III 518, IV 495a, V495 s. v. "seals"
India*Thompson-Balys
ChineseGraham
JapaneseIkeda
N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 313 n. 132
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 364, II 13, III 75, 143, 262, Rink 146, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 181, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 617, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 468, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 95
JamaicaBeckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 84
SurinamAlexander Lat. Am. 274. – See also all references under D361.1. (Swan Maiden).
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general North Carolina Negro: Parsons JAFL XXX 187

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Transformation by putting on claw, feather, etc. of helpful animal Transformation to fish by catching in fish-trap Transformation to horse (ass. etc.) by putting on bridle (halter)Transformation by removing chains from neck Transformation by changing clothes

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation by eating or drinking Clam test. Hero is sent to capture a giant clam, so that he can be killed Wedge test. Hero is caught in cleft of tree Disguise as girl to avoid execution Cruel uncle Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask)

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