μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 mythCross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • general *Type 450
  • general *Fb "hjort" I 625, "hind" I 612, "blod" IV 48a
  • general *Loomis White Magic 80
  • general Chinese and Persian: Coyajee JPASB XXIV 182ff., Eskimo (Cape York): Rasmussen III 191
  • general N. Am. Indian (White Mountain Apache): Goddard PaAM XXIV 128
  • general S. Am. Indian (Tembe): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140.
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation: girl to deer (fawn) (by druid)Transformation: woman to doe
Filed beside it
Transformation: man to elandTransformation: man to hartebeestTransformation: man to buffaloTransformation: man to musk oxTransformation: man to caribouTransformation: man to moose
Travels with
Marriage to woman in deer form. (Cf. D114.1.)
Carried in tale types

wander