μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: statue comes to life.

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to person. · view the constellation · filed as D435.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Finnish cf. Kalevala rune 37 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XXXVII
  • Germanic MacCulloch Eddic 188
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "statue"
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. *701
  • Hindu Benfey Panchatantra I 490
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Babylonian Meissner Babylonien und Assyrien II 96
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Indonesian DeVries's list No. 184, Dixon 200, *201 n. 38
  • German New Guinea ibid. 141
  • Australian ibid. 274
  • Eskimo (Bering Strait) Nelson RBAE XVIII 479, 485, 497, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 619, (Koryak): Jochelson JE VI 22, 286, 370
  • N. Am. Indian Thompson Tales 357 n. 287i, Hatt Asiatic Influences 97.
  • general *Type 945, cf. Type 165*
  • general *BP III 53 n. 2
  • general D. E. MacKay The Double Invitation in the Legend of Don Juan (1943)
  • general *Loomis White Magic 81
  • general Hdwb. d. Märchens s. v. "Baum"
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 531. Greek: Fox 200 (Galateia)
  • general Semitic: bin Gorion Born Judas V 180ff.
  • general Torres Straits: Dixon 142 n. 25
Within the index

Filed under Transformation: statue to person.

Filed beside it
Transformation: dolls change to fairies when flute is played Image of boy made of flowers comes to life Wax prince animated by serpent becomes human being Transformation: stone lion to man
Carried in tale types

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