Periodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals

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Periodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Periodic transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D620

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

IcelandicVölsunga saga ch. 8–9, Boberg
IndiaThompson-Balys
IndonesianDixon 219f.
N. Am. Indian (Menomini)Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 317
general *Types 432, 652
general *BP II 125
general R. M. Meyer Zs. f. Vksk. XXI 4. Irish myth: *Cross
general S. Am. Indian (Surinam): Alexander Lat. Am. 274, (Guaporé): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 379. – Africa (Angola): Chatelain 145 No. 15, (Mpongwe): Nassau 68 No. 15.

Within the index

4 finer motifs beneath it

Daily transformation Weekly transformation. See all references to C31.1.2. (Mélusine)Transformation every ten days Yearly transformation

Travels with

Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals

Carried in tale types

The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 5524 recorded variants

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