Transformation: man to fish.
Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to fish. · view the constellation · filed as D170
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth Cross
- Norse De la Saussaye 261
- Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75 D
- Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 122, Graham
- India *Thompson-Balys
- Hawaii Beckwith Myth XXIII 204, 525
- Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G 3/1100)
- Marquesas Handy 135
- Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 372
- Tonga Gifford 84
- Eskimo (Kodiak) Golder JAFL XX 139
- N. Am. Indian (Seneca) Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 170 No. 32
- S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 52, 150
- Africa (Madagascar) Renel I 94ff.
- general *Types 555, 665
- general BP I 139
- general *Fb "fisk"
- general Chauvin 57 No. 222 n. 3
- general *Loorits Pharaos Heer in der Volksüberlieferung (Tartu, 1935)
- general Cosquin Études 516ff. English: Child V 497 s. v. "stepmother"
- general Tahitian: Dixon 65
Within the index
8 finer motifs beneath it
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 450 16 recorded variants
- The Three Oranges · ATU 408 1 recorded variant
- The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 665 1 recorded variant
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