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
Scholars’ trail — 21references
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
- NorseDe la Saussaye 261
- LappishQvigstad FFC LX 48 No. 75 D
- ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 122, Graham
- India*Thompson-Balys
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth XXIII 204, 525
- TuamotuStimson MS (z-G 3/1100)
- MarquesasHandy 135
- Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 372
- TongaGifford 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
Carried in tale types
- Little Brother and Little Sister · ATU 45016 recorded variants
- The Three Oranges · ATU 4081 recorded variant
- The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 6651 recorded variant