μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: man to deer. (Cf. B641.2.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D114.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • 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 eland Transformation: man to hartebeest Transformation: man to buffalo Transformation: man to musk ox Transformation: man to caribou Transformation: man to moose
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Marriage to woman in deer form. (Cf. D114.1.)
Carried in tale types

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