μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • IcelandicCorpus poeticum Boreale I 136, 140, *Boberg
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Greek mythGrote I 160
  • FinnishAarne FFC VIII 14 No. 75, XXXIII 53 No. 75
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 130 No. 73, 145 No. 38
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 428
  • general Dh III, Fb "blod" IV 48
  • general Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother". Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Eng., U.S.: *Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to canine animal (wild).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf formGod (goddess) assumes form of a wolf
Filed beside it
Transformation: man to bearTransformation man to foxTransformation: man to jackalTransformation: man to hyena
Travels with
Wer-tiger. Like werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.)Witch in form of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.)Old beggar transforms wedding party into wolves. (Cf. D113.1.)
Carried in tale types

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