Transformation: man to swan.
Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to bird. · view the constellation · filed as D161.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Irish *Cross
- Icelandic Hrómundar saga Gr. 373–75 (Kára), Boberg
- Greek *Frazer Pausanias II 395.
- general *Type 451
- general **O. Rank Die Lohengrinsage (1911) 65f.
- general *Wehrhan Die Sage 50
- general *Wesselski Märchen 255 No. 64
- general *Chauvin VIII 206 No. 248
- general *G. Huet Romania XXXIV (1905) 206ff.
- general *Fb "svane" III 664ab
- general H. Am. Todd A propos of La Naissance du chevalier au cygne (MLN VI 2)
- general Krappe Apollon Kyknos (Classical Philology XXXVII 353–370)
- general *BP I 427ff.
- general Hibbard 248, *251. – English Romance: Wells 97 (Chevalere Assigne)
Carried in tale types
- The Maiden Who Seeks her Brothers · ATU 451 3 recorded variants
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