Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg — Mythoi

Motif

Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Repeated transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D611

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 310 n. 117d.

Within the index

Filed under Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another.

Filed beside it

Goddess repeatedly transforms herself Protean sale: man sells youth in successive transformations Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Repeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to feather Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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