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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

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“As he was returning from the hunt, there met him heralds sent by Erginus to receive the tribute from the Thebans. Now the Thebans paid tribute to Erginus for the following reason. Clymenus, king of the Minyans, was wounded with a cast of a stone by a charioteer of Menoeceus, named Perieres, in a precinct of Poseidon at Onchestus; and being carried dying to Orchomenus, he with his last breath charged his son Erginus to avenge his death.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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  • Welshibid. 185
  • GermanBoberg
  • IndonesianDeVries'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 womanTransformation 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 sacrificeNuptial tabu. Man and wife forbidden intercourse for definite timeTransformation: man to stonePetrification by glanceMagic sandalsMagic capMagic cap renders invisible: tarnkappe. (Cf. D1067.2, D1361.16.)Magic sandals bear person aloft. (Cf. D1065.5.)Night magically lengthenedThree 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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