• Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 14
• Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 1: The Golden Tract Concerning the Stone of the Philosophers

• Icelandic *Boberg
• Lithuanian Balys Legends Nos. 503f.
• England *Baughman
• Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 153 n. 3, 343 (Niobe) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
• India *Thompson-Balys, Tawney 123
• Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 94, 119, 209
• Japanese Ikeda
• Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 61
• Tuamotu Stimson MS (T-G 3/6)
• Marquesas Handy 106
• Hawaii Beckwith Myth 65, 191, 342, 422
• Tonga Gifford 183, Mono Alu: Wheeler 25, 66
• New Hebrides Codrington 367
• Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 219, 464, Rasmussen III 152, 194, (Smith Sound): Kroeber JAFL XII 172, (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 84, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 159, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 505, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 172. – American Indian (Central Brazil): Ehrenreich Int. Cong. Americanists XIV 662, (Snuqualmi and Snohomish): Haeberlin JAFL XXXVII 378. – Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 260 No. 38, (Kaffir): Theal 101.
• general *Types 303, 471, 516
• general *Fb "sten" III 553b
• general Köhler-Bolte I 572f.
• general *Chauvin VI No. 273, *58 No. 222, VII 83 No. 373bis n. 1, 98 No. 375
• general *Loomis White Magic 80. Irish myth: *Cross
• general Italian novella: Rotunda

Filed under Transformation: man to a mineral form.

• The Twins or Blood-Brothers · ATU 303 12 recorded variants
• The Bridge to the Otherworld · ATU 471 4 recorded variants
• Brothers Seek Sisters as Wives (previously Six Brothers Seek Seven Sisters as Wives) · ATU 303A 1 recorded variant