>>56615559The Typhlosion story has shades of European folklore.
The husband whose face the wife is forbidden to look at is a classic "Animal/Monster as Bridegroom" motif, eg East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
Eating the berries => Persephone eating the pomegranate.
Transformation by animal pelt is common in lycanthropy.
It does seem like the kind of folklore that would exist in the Pokemon world.