Search
Motifs
- Culture hero assumes ugly and deformed guise. A527.3.1.1
- Dwarf assumes human form. D49.1
- God (goddess) assumes form of a wolf. D113.1.2
- God assumes form of calf. D133.4.1
- God assumes form of a cat. D142.2
- God assumes form of an eel. D173.1
- Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg. D611
- Wandering soul assumes various shapes. E721.5
- Wandering soul assumes shape of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.1, E731.) E721.5.1
- Fairy assumes shape of woman and frequents bazaars. F234.2.8
- Deity assumes frightful guises to frighten child. H1401
- Chief of dead assumes frightful guises to frighten visitors. H1401.1
- Ogress assumes frightful guises to frighten messengers. H1401.2
- Ordinary man assumes high sounding name and challenges enemy chief to single combat. Latter is frightened into believing him to be of exceptional prowess and desists from attacking the city. K1951.5
- The wine (water) occasionally used to bathe relics assumes healing powers. V221.0.1.2
- Death (fate) assumes various forms to destroy men. Z111.5