μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • IndiaThompson-Balys, Penzer VI 16, VIII 140ff.
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Transformation through power of the word.

1 finer motif beneath it
Despondent mother curses herself and children into trees
Filed beside it
Transformation through wishTransformation through magic word (charm). (Cf. D1273.)Transformation through song. (Cf. D1275.)Transformation through greeting: first creature to be greeted will be transformed. (Cf. A1371.3.)Transformation by scoldingTransformation through power of the word – miscellaneous

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