μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animals from Pharaoh's drowned army. From the army crossing the Red Sea came the various animals.

Mythological motifs. · Creation of animal life. · Creation of animal life – general. · Creation of animals through transformation. · view the constellation · filed as A1715.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Dh I 318.
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Filed under Animals from transformed man. (Cf. A2005, A2011.2.)

Filed beside it
Animals from men transformed for discourtesy to God (Jesus). (Cf. A1831, A1862, A1871.)Seven whistlers are the souls of the Jews who crucified Christ. (Cf. F456.1.1.1.)Animals from transformed men according to favorite food. One man asks for flesh, one for blood, etc. They are changed to mice, cats, and bugs. (Cf. A1811, A1853.)Animals from transformed survivors of shipwreck
Travels with
Various birds from Pharaoh's drowned army. (Cf. A1715.1)Creation of plover (known as seven whistlers). (Cf. A1715.1.)

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