The Childhood of Fiction a Study of Folk Tales And Primitive Thought
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314 ; Rink, pp. 219, 459 ; Bleek, p. 57. 2 See p. 430. 3 Dasent, p. 342. 4 Thorpe, Y. T. S. , p. 364; Grundtvig, i. 248; Dozon, p. 135; Garnet, ii. 143, cf. Hahn, No. 68 ; Mijatovich, pp. 191, 206 ; Wardrop, p. 1 ; Ralston, p. 229 ; Julg, p. 1 ; Child, Eng. And Scot Ballads, pt. Ii. 399, " The Two Magicians. " THE TRANSFORMATION COMBAT 165 fruit, etc. ) changes to grain, which the magician, as a fowl, is about to pick up, when it becomes a fox or hawk and kills him. There are many Eastern versi...ons, of which a Tamil story bears the closest resemblance to the European stories. Here the transformations are, for the hero, horse, fish, buffalo, parrot, which the princess keeps as a pet. One night the hero assumes his true shape and warns the princess. The sorcerer appears as a rope-dancer, and asks the parrot as his reward. She, as advised, wrings its neck ; it becomes a pearl in her necklace. The magician asks it ; she scatters the pearls on the ground, where they become worms, which change into a cat who seizes the magician as a fowl.
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