μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 181, 401, (Kaffir): Theal 38, (Luba): DeClerq Zs. f. Kolonialsprachen IV 204.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to reptiles and miscellaneous animals.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wer-crocodileTransformation: man to alligator
Filed beside it
Transformation: man to serpent (snake). (Cf. B642.1.)Transformation: man to worm (often = snake)Transformation: man to tortoise (turtle)Transformation: man to frog. (Cf. B643)Transformation: man to toadTransformation: man to lizardTransformation: man to snailTransformation: man to other animals than those already treated
Travels with
Marriage to person in crocodile form. (Cf. D194.)

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