μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: man to woman.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Transformation to person of different sex. · view the constellation · filed as D12

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 364 n. 1 (Tiresias) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
  • French Canadian Sister Marie Ursule
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Hindu Keith 147, 151. Eskimo (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 249, (West Hudson Bay) Boas BAM XV 325
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 247, (Dahomé) Einstein 27.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation to person of different sex.

1 finer motif beneath it
Transformation: god to giantess
Filed beside it
Ogre has unique powers of exchange of sex with human being Change of sex after crossing water Transformation woman to man
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile) Blinding as punishment

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