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D0. Transformation (general). *MacCulloch Childhood 149ff.; *Wimberley 275ff.; Sébillot Incidents s.v. “métamorphose”; Burton Arabian Nights VIII 270, S IV 329. – *Tibbals “Elements of Magic in the Romance of William of Palerne” MPh I (1903) 355ff.; *Easter: a Study of Magic Elements in the Romans d‘Aventure (Dissertation, Baltimore 1906); *Hegar Hessische Blätter f. Vksk. XXVIII 110ff. – Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 251 n. 4 (Neleus); Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Icelandic: *Boberg.
D12. Transformation: man to woman. Irish myth: *Cross; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Greek: Frazer Apollodorus I 364 n. 1 (Tiresias); French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Keith 147, 151. – Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 249, (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 325; Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 247, (Dahomé) Einstein 27.
D31. Transformation: white person to negro. (Cf. D57) – Chauvin II 183 No. 23; *Fb “jomfru”, “hvid” I 700b, “sort” III 467b, “pige” II 816b. – Spanish Boggs FFC XC 57 No. 425; Jewish: *Neuman.
D40. Transformation to likeness of another person. *Type 363; BP III 534 n. 1. – Wells 30 (Uther Pendragon); Icelandic: Boberg; Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman; Greek: Grote I 80; Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 211, (Cape York) Rasmussen III 54; Africa (Fang): Tessman 141f.
D42. God in guise of mortal. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 56, *Cross; Greek: Iliad and Odyssey passim; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 109.
D44.1. Transformation: man to angel. Jewish: Neuman.
D47. Transformation to likeness of monster. Irish myth: Cross (D94, D95); Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
D52. Magic change to different appearance. Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
D55.1. Person becomes magically larger. Tobler 90. – Irish myth: *Cross; Jewish: Neuman; Latin: Virgil Aeneid VI line 50; Africa (Fang) Trilles 184.
D55.2.5. Transformation: adult to child. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Eskimo (Greenland): Rasmussen I 103, (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 40; Africa (Togo): Einstein 8, (Boloki) Weeks Congo 200ff.
D56.1. Transformation to older person. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys.
D57. Change in person’s color. (Cf. D31.) – Jewish: Neuman.
D57.4. Transformation to black man. German: Grimm No. 121, 137; Jewish: Neuman.
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