μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: duck to person. (Cf. D361.1.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: animal to person. · Transformation: bird to person. · view the constellation · filed as D365

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: bird to person.

Filed beside it
Transformation: falconiform to person Transformation: coraciiform to person Transformation: charidiiform to person Transformation: parrot to person Transformation: swan to person Transformation: goose to person
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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