Magic change of person's size

Motif

Magic change of person's size.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Magic changes in man himself. · view the constellation · filed as D55

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
Eskimo (West Hudson Bay)*Boas BAM XV 361 (No. 34)
Africa (Togo)Einstein 8.

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Filed under Magic changes in man himself.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Person becomes magically larger Person becomes magically smaller

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Magic change to different appearance Transformation in health Magic change in person's age Change in person's color. (Cf. D31.)Magic appearance of human limbs. A boy has no hands and legs; his abandoned sister successfully commands them to appear or disappear

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