Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings and resumes her form — Mythoi

Motif

Swan Maiden finds her hidden wings and resumes her form.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: animal to person. · Transformation: bird to person. · view the constellation · filed as D361.1.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 22ff. No. 11.
general Types 400, 465A. U. S.: *Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Swan Maiden. A swan transforms herself at will into a maiden. She resumes her swan form by putting on her swan coat. (It is difficult to tell in most Swan Maiden tales whether the primary form is swan or maiden: the incident may belong at D161.)

Carried in tale types

The Man on a Quest for his Lost Wife · ATU 400 72 recorded variants

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