μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *H. Gaidoz "Du changement de sexe dans les contes celtiques" Revue de l'histoire des religions LVII 317ff.
  • general *Chauvin VIII 43 No. 11
  • general *Penzer VII 42ff., 223ff.
  • general *Fb "menneske" II 577b, "kvinde" II 339b
  • general *Brown JAOS XLVII 3
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 752
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human beingChange of sex after crossing waterTransformation woman to manTransformation: man to woman
Travels with
Change of sex by exchange with a yaksa (ogre). (Cf. D10.)Mountain spirits change sex at will. (Cf. D10.)

wander