μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • HinduPenzer VI 25 n. 1
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • EnglishChild V 497 s. v. "stepmother"
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 48
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth XII 101, 254, 478, 495, 532
  • Philippine (Tinguian)Cole 193
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 13
  • N. Am. Indian (Seneca)Curtin-Hewitt RBAE XXXII 489 No. 106, (Crow): Lowie PaAM XXV 45
  • Africa (Fjort)Dennett 42 No. 6, (Basuto): Jacottet 68 No. 10, (Fang): Tessman 112.
  • general *Type 442
  • general *Fb "træ" III 867b. Greek: Fox 16
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to vegetable form.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation: man (woman) to laurelTransformation: man to pear treeTransformation: man (woman) to ash treeTransformation: man (woman) to linden treeTransformation: man to apple treeTransformation: man (woman) to mulberry treeTransformation: man (woman) to almond treeTransformation: man (woman) to mango tree
Filed beside it
Plants as transformed bodies of godsTransformation: man to fruitTransformation: man (woman) to flowerTransformation: man to plantTransformation to grainTransformation: man to logTransformation: man to stickTransformation: man to sheaf of grainTransformation: man to gourd (calabash)Transformation: man to nutTransformation: man to grassTransformation: man to reedTransformation: man to seaweed
Travels with
Pursued sweetheart becomes tree. (Cf. D215.)Prince buys twig (flower) (enchanted girl) from her mother. (Cf. D212, D215.)
Carried in tale types

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