Transformation by drinking — Mythoi

Motif

Transformation by drinking.

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation by eating or drinking. · view the constellation · filed as D555

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 287 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 450
general BP I 86ff.
general MacCulloch Childhood 159. See also references to D550. Italian Novella: Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under Transformation by eating or drinking.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Transformation by drinking from animal's track. (Cf. D578.) Transformation by drinking wine

Filed beside it

Transformation by eating

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.) Plant as antidote to spells and enchantments. (Cf. D965.)

Carried in tale types

Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 450 16 recorded variants

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