Man by day; animal by night

Motif

Man by day; animal by night.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Periodic transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D621.1.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 6
Depth CommentaryPsychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, Part II — CHAPTER IV

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 45 No. 71
EstonianAarne FFC XXV 130 No. 71
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 135
Eskimo (Mackenzie Area)Jenness 52.
general *Taylor MPh XVII 59 n. 8. Icelandic: Boberg

Within the index

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Transformation to snakes at night in order to sleep. (Cf. D621.1.1.) Done by otherworld people Cat's paw cut off: woman's hand missing. A man spends a night in a haunted mill, where he cuts off a cat's paw. In the morning the miller's wife has lost her hand. (Cf. D142, D621.1.1.)

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