μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • EnglishChild V 499 s. v. "transformations"
  • Irish myth*Cross. Indonesian: Dixon 216
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 87.
  • general *Chauvin V 4 No. 2, VIII 43f. No. 11
Within the index

Filed under Transformation by various means.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation by application of waterTransformation by urine. (Cf. D441.5, D441.6, D564.4, D1006.)
Filed beside it
Transformation by jumping over. The person, animal, or object jumped over is transformedTransformation by encircling object thriceTransformation by smellingTransformation by touchingTransformation by strikingTransformation by sunlightTransformation by turning magic hoodTransformation by throwing object or personTransformation by magic objectTransformation by spell (charm)Transformation by crossing waterTransformation by fumigations. Burning of magic perfume transforms. (Cf. D1245.)Transformation by being burned. (Cf. D1787.)Transformation by braiding hairTransformation by stepping in footprint. (Cf. D555.1.)Transformation by looking in a mirror
Travels with
Magic results from bathing. (Cf. D562, D925, D2161.4.14.)

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