μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation by putting on skin. By putting on the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal, a person is transformed to that animal.

Magic. · Transformation. · Means of transformation. · Transformation by putting on skin, clothing, etc. · view the constellation · filed as D531

Attested across traditions
Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. Völsunga saga ch. 8
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • English Child II 494, III 518, IV 495a, V495 s. v. "seals"
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Graham
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 313 n. 132
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 364, II 13, III 75, 143, 262, Rink 146, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 181, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 617, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 468, (Kodiak): Golder JAFL XVI 95
  • Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 271 No. 84
  • Surinam Alexander Lat. Am. 274. – See also all references under D361.1. (Swan Maiden).
  • general Fb "and"
  • general North Carolina Negro: Parsons JAFL XXX 187
Within the index

Filed under Transformation by putting on skin, clothing, etc.

Filed beside it
Transformation by putting on claw, feather, etc. of helpful animal Transformation to fish by catching in fish-trap Transformation to horse (ass. etc.) by putting on bridle (halter) Transformation by removing chains from neck Transformation by changing clothes
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation by eating or drinking Clam test. Hero is sent to capture a giant clam, so that he can be killed Wedge test. Hero is caught in cleft of tree Disguise as girl to avoid execution Cruel uncle Exposure in boat. A person (usually woman or child) set adrift in a boat (chest, basket, cask)

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