This is Chase033.
Types (none)
Motifs A1614 origino f white and colored races
A1614.2 races dark-skinned from bathing after white men
Notes
Ellis wants to make a parallel with Gold Coast tale "in which the chnage of color is brought about by means of the blood of a handsome boy"
Swanton has an Indian version: "The man who entered the pool first came out clean and his descendants are white; for the next water was not quite so clean, his descendants are Indians; the water was then dirty, and the last man came out black."
Baer notes: "These variants have been collected by white men from Indians and black men. It would be interesting to know if there are different versions which are not transmitted to white collectors."
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