μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation woman to man.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Transformation to person of different sex. · view the constellation · filed as D11

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Chinese Eberhard 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 man Woman 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 being Change of sex after crossing water Transformation: man to woman
Carried in tale types

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