Lover as bird visits mistress

Motif

Lover as bird visits mistress.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Reasons for voluntary transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D641.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

GreekGrote I 86
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general *Type 432
general Child V 39ff. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Transformation to reach difficult place.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Girl as bird visits lover Transformation to be able to woo maiden

Filed beside it

Transformation to gain access to enemy's camp (fortress)Transformation in order to enter rival's stomach. (Cf. D651.2.)Transformation to travel to otherworld

Carried in tale types

The Prince as Bird · ATU 4322 recorded variants

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