B. Animals
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Insects from body of slain monster. B91.3. Horned snake. B163.1. Animal languages learned from eating dragon's heart. B498. Helpful dragon. C92.2. Tabu: killing sacred dragon. D199.2. Transformation: man to dragon. D419.1.1. Transformation: sea dragon to serpent. D429.1.1. Transformation: dragon king to gust of wind. D659.4.2. Sea dragon in serpent form to accompany hero. D812.7. Magic object received from dragon king. D1846.4. Invulnerability through bathing in dragon's blood. E263. Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon. E738.1. Soul in form of dragon. H1024.5. Task: sowing dragon's teeth. H1274. Quest in hell for three dragon feathers.
B11.1. Origin of dragon.
B11.1.1. Dragon from cock's egg. (Cf. B12.1.) — *Fb "drage"; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 600—603.
B11.1.2. Dragon from transformed horse. White horse plunges into water and is changed into a dragon. Chinese: Werner 368.
B318. Helpful animals transformed from other animals. D410. Transformation: one animal to another.
B11.1.3. Dragon from transformed man lying on his treasures (Fáfnir). (Cf. B11.6.2.) — Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 367; Eisen Esthnische Mythologie 74ff.; Icel.: *Boberg.
B11.1.3.0.1. Transformed princess as dragon. Irish myth: Cross; German: Grimm No. 88.
B11.1.3.1. Dragon from worm. Irish myth: Cross.
B11.1.3.1.1. Dragon develops from small worm placed on gold. It grows together with the gold. DeVries Studien over Faerosche Balladen 122ff.; Hdwb. d. Abergl. II 384f.; Icel.: *Boberg.
B11.1.4. Devil in form of dragon. German: Grimm No. 125.
B11.2. Form of dragon. *Smith Dragon, passim.; Chinese: Werner 208ff.
B11.2.0.1. She-dragon. Irish myth: Cross.
B11.2.1. Dragon as compound animal (Cf. B14.) — Smith Dragon 81 (serpent or crocodile, with scales of a fish for covering, and feet and wings and sometimes also the head, of an eagle, falcon, or hawk, and the forelimbs and sometimes the head of a lion). — Chinese: Werner 208 (ears of an ox, feet of a tiger, claws of an eagle, horns of a deer, head of a camel, eyes of a devil, neck of a snake, abdomen of a cock, scales of a carp); Egyptian: Smith op. cit. 79 (lioness, falcon, human being).
B11.2.1.1. Dragon as modified serpent. Smith Dragon 92, 101f., 107ff. (American Indian, Japanese, East Indian). — Icel.: *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 65.
B11.2.1.2. Dragon as modified lizard. Smith Dragon 109.
B11.2.1.3. Dragon as modified fish. Smith Dragon 108f.; Irish myth: Cross; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 65.
B16.9. Devastating man-eating sea-monster. B21.5. Sea-serpent. B175. Magic fish. B875. Giant sea-monster.
B11.2.1.4. Dragon as modified shell-fish. Smith Dragon 165ff.
B11.2.1.5. Dragon as modified toad. Smith Dragon 109.
B11.2.1.6. Dragon as modified elephant. Smith Dragon 109.
B11.2.1.7. Dragon as modified horse. Smith Dragon 97f. Japanese: Ikeda.
