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Originally Posted by Jake T Catt
.. A transformation scene, obviously....
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Actually not obviouslly.
A lot of traditional stories with a transformation in them(pre 1900)
were cousins and daughters of earlier non-transformation stories
because they had a plot and elements derived from the earlier
non-transformation tales
(eg Lambes transformation narrative "The laidley Worm o'
Spindleston Heughs(about 1768) borrowed lines from
the non transformation ballad The
Lambton Worm( lets say 1550)
and its possible Kempion (lets say 1550 again) borrowed stuff from the
hagiographies of St Margaret of Antioch and St Thaneu and her son
St Mungo(Kentigern)(maybe 1000)
So its not much of a leap to take the plot from a transformation narrative
such as (oh lets say) Morris's "Lady of the Land" poem(~1860) and turn it into
the non-transformative novel "Dragon's Keep" (2007) with its love cursed
young woman in a castle on a island.