Transformation by eating or drinking — Mythoi

Motif

Transformation by eating or drinking.

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation by eating or drinking. · view the constellation · filed as D550

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 40 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 313 n. 132a.
general *MacCulloch Childhood 158. Japanese: Ikeda

Within the index

2 finer motifs beneath it

Transformation by eating Transformation by drinking

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

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