μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 165, No. 108
  • Eskimo (Cumberland Sound)Boas BAM XV 248, (Cape York) Rasmussen III 152
  • general *Types 406, 514
  • general BP II 79ff., 87, III 84
  • general Gr. Nos 71, 134
  • general *Loomis White Magic 80
  • general (Koryak) Jochelson JE VI 195, 323
  • general Africa (Dahomé): Einstein 28.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation to person of different sex.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation: ogress to manWoman transforms herself into a bird and lends her female organ to a boy. He fails to return it and she becomes a man when she resumes human form
Filed beside it
Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human beingChange of sex after crossing waterTransformation: man to woman
Carried in tale types

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