Animal by day; man by night — Mythoi

Motif

Animal by day; man by night.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Periodic transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D621.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Hrólfs saga Kraka 50
Spanish *Boggs FFC XC 62 No. 451
Hawaii Beckwith Myth 135
N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 347 nn. 247, 248
general *Types 425, 552A
general *Köhler-Bolte I 315ff.
general *Fb "hund" I 678a, "bjørn" IV 43a. Irish myth: Cross
general Bohemian: Hartland Science 246. – India: *Thompson-Balys
general Mangaia (Polynesia), Samoa, Union Group, Tahiti: Dixon 55f.
general Melanesian, Indonesian: ibid. 56 nn. 75, 76
general S. Am. Indian (Arawak): Jijena Sanchez 23.

Within the index

Filed under Daily transformation.

1 finer motif beneath it

Man by day; animal by night

Filed beside it

One shape by day; another by night Tree by day; man by night Ugly by day; fair by night Size of object transformed at night Sheep by day; dog by night Young man issues from conch-shell every evening

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Transformation to lion in order to guard palace. (Cf. D112.1, D621.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Animal as Bridegroom · ATU 425A 24 recorded variants
Son of the Witch (previously The Disenchanted Husband: the Witch's Tasks) · ATU 425B 12 recorded variants
The Girls Who Married Animals · ATU 552 4 recorded variants

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