μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 myth*Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Periodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Storks become men in Egypt in the winter. (Cf. D155.1.)Fairies become birds every other yearYearly transformation to person of different sex
Filed beside it
Daily transformationWeekly transformation. See all references to C31.1.2. (Mélusine)Transformation every ten days

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