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Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Reasons for voluntary transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D658.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Welsh ibid. 185
  • German Boberg
  • Indonesian DeVries's list No. 150.
  • general *Penzer III 126f.
  • general *Toldo Zs. f. Vksk. XV 367
  • general *Frazer Apollodorus I 174 n. 1 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Betrüger überführt"
  • general Roscher Lexikon s. v. "Alkmene"
  • general Euphorion I 589f.
  • general Zachariae Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 138ff.
  • general Wells 30 (Geoffrey of Monmouth), 32 (Layamon's Brut), 43 (Arthour and Merlin), 103 (Alliterative Alexander, Fragment A). Irish myth: *Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 52, 56, 63, 75
Within the index

Filed under Transformation to seduce.

Filed beside it
Transformation to animal to seduce woman Transformation of sex to seduce [First Edition: D658.4. Cow transformed to woman to marry man and protect cattle.]
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Devastating fox. Monthly human sacrifice Nuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite time Transformation: man to stone Petrification by glance Magic sandals Magic cap Magic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.) Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.) Night magically lengthened Three women have but one eye among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F513.1.1.) Three women have but one tooth among them. Pass it around. (Cf. F512.1.2.) Gorgon. Head turned about, scales of dragon, tusks of swine brazen hands, golden wings

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