μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Lover as bird visits mistress.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Greek Grote I 86
  • India Thompson-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

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