Devil changes shape

Motif

Devil changes shape.

Ogres. · Kinds of ogres. · Other ogres. · Other ogres. · view the constellation · filed as G303.3.5

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Forms in which the devil appears.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Devil becomes larger and larger Devil becomes smaller and smaller Devil becomes heavier and heavier. Animal taken into cart becomes so heavy that horses are unable to pull cart. If it is brought home it turns to stone or tree-stump

Filed beside it

Devil in hideous form. (Cf. G303.3.1.4.)The devil in human form The devil in superhuman from The devil in animal form Devil in form of inanimate objects Forms into which the devil cannot change

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