{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas087n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas087n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas087n.htm","text":"The story of the beast-husband transformed by means of a song is very common in Jamaica. It occurs in Milne-Home, 42-45, and Jekyll, 73-77; 132-135.\nCompare Junod, 246-253; Parsons, Andros Island, 39-43 and references in note 1.\nIn Parsons's Andros Island variants, the transformed beast is the wife (compare number 84) and has the form of a bird, as in Jekyll's two versions, one of which, 132-135, ends with the \"Yonec\" story. In all the versions I heard, and in Milne-Home, the wooer is a bull.","title":"Note 87. Bull as Bridegroom.","type":"page"}