μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • IcelandicHrólfs saga Kraka 50
  • Spanish*Boggs FFC XC 62 No. 451
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 135
  • N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 347 nn. 247, 248
  • general *Types 425, 552A
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 315ff.
  • general *Fb "hund" I 678a, "bjørn" IV 43a. Irish myth: Cross
  • general Bohemian: Hartland Science 246. – India: *Thompson-Balys
  • general Mangaia (Polynesia), Samoa, Union Group, Tahiti: Dixon 55f.
  • general Melanesian, Indonesian: ibid. 56 nn. 75, 76
  • general S. Am. Indian (Arawak): Jijena Sanchez 23.
Within the index

Filed under Daily transformation.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man by day; animal by night
Filed beside it
One shape by day; another by nightTree by day; man by nightUgly by day; fair by nightSize of object transformed at nightSheep by day; dog by nightYoung man issues from conch-shell every evening
Travels with
Transformation to lion in order to guard palace. (Cf. D112.1, D621.1.)
Carried in tale types

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