Up to now, a number of works of collection, study, introduction on folkstories of the Southern Khmer have been implemented with certain achievements.However, in order to recognize the uniqueness of the Southern Khmer’s fairy tales,we need to compare them with fairy tales of another ethnic group in largepopulation and cultural differences (Viet). Therefore, the feasible study directionfor the above objective is to compare Southern Khmer’s fairy tales with Vietpeole’s fairy tales from the perspective of type and motif. Especially, finding thetypical motifs of the type of the “Human in animal shapes” type of the SouthernKhmer will contribute to identifying the specific characteristics of their culturalidentity. This article presents the typical motifs of the “Human in animal shape”story type of the Southern Khmer in the view of comparing with the Viet people’ssimilar story type, which is a practical work to meet the needs of preserving anddeveloping the Khmer folk literature resource in general and this type in particular.