μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Tahiti Beckwith Myth 37
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 310 n. 117a.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to object – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it
Transformation: man to meat Transformation: man to egg Transformation: man to storm Transformation: man to water Transformation: man (woman) to island Transformation: man to fire Transformation: man to ashes Transformation: man to mound Transformation: man to mountain Transformation: man to hair Transformation: man to star Transformation into puff of dust Transformation: man to spittle
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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