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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • general *Type 325
  • general *BP II 60ff.
  • general *Cosquin Études 567ff.
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 184 n. 98–Missouri French: Carrière.
Within the index

Filed under Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another.

1 finer motif beneath it
Illusory transformation of animals in order to sell and cheat. (Cf. D2031, K1870.)
Filed beside it
Goddess repeatedly transforms herselfProtean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to begTransformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformationsRepeated transformations to deceive wives. A husband thus makes each of his many wives believe that he is always with her
Carried in tale types

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