Protean transformation of water-spirit — Mythoi

Motif

Protean transformation of water-spirit.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.4.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Greek Fox 87, 122 (Nereus, Thetis), Frazer Apollodorus II 67 n. 6 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIII
Slavic Máchal 270.

Within the index

Filed under Water-spirits possess magic power.

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal) Transformation: man to tiger Transformation: man to cuttlefish Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.) Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another Magic meat Magic sword Magic strength-giving food. (Cf. D1030.) Immortality by burning Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Test of sex of man masking as girl: arms placed among baskets and war-trumpet sounded. Man snatches arms Man disguised as woman admitted to women's quarters: seduction

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