μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: bird to person.

Filed beside it
Transformation: falconiform to personTransformation: coraciiform to personTransformation: charidiiform to personTransformation: parrot to personTransformation: swan to personTransformation: goose to person
Travels with
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.)

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