μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation to likeness of another person.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to different man. · Transformation to likeness of another person. · view the constellation · filed as D40

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Greek Grote I 80
  • Africa (Fang) Tessman 141f.
  • general *Type 363
  • general BP III 534 n. 1. Wells 30 (Uther Pendragon)
  • general Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen II 211, (Cape York) Rasmussen III 54
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation to likeness of person whose shield one carries. (Cf. D1101.1) Transformation to likeness of another woman Humble man in guise of exalted God in guise of mortal Transformation: mortal to guise of deity Mortal in guise of spirit Persons exchange forms Transformation to likeness of monster Transformation to likeness of another person – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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