μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bad women from transformed hog and goose. Peter, having only one daughter, foolishly promises her to three men. He asks the Lord to create two others. This request is granted. The first creature he meets on two successive mornings he is to greet, and they will be transformed. He meets a hog and a goose. His two new daughters have these characteristics.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Origin of mental and moral characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A1371.3

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 411.
  • general *Dh II 191ff.
  • general Fb "sø" III 449b.
Within the index

Filed under Why women are bad.

Filed beside it
Bad women because of head exchanged with devil. Devil (serpent) and woman fight. St. Peter cuts off their heads and exchanges themBad women combination of nine different animals
Travels with
Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.)

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