μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic De la Saussaye 261
  • Finnish Kalevala rune 43 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XLIII
  • Greek Fox 178
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Chinese Werner 270, 273, 365, Ferguson 159
  • Maori Dixon 79
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 310 n. 117
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 26.
  • general *Types 329, 665, 434. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Reasons for voluntary transformation.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Lover as bird visits mistress 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
Filed beside it
Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation so as to rescue Transformation to travel fast Transformation to test heroes Transformation to be picked up (caught) Transformation to seek lost (or unknown) person Transformation to defeat enemies. (Cf. D615.) Transformation to receive food Transformation to steal. (Cf. K300.) Transformation to seduce Miscellaneous reasons for voluntary transformation
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
King transformed to parrot frees captured parrots. (Cf. D641.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Sun father-in-law Animal bribed with food. (Sop to Cerberus.) Animal as guard of person or house Guardian animals evaded Transformation: man to eagle Transformation: man to feather Protean beggar: Person assumes successive forms in order to beg Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformations Transformation to escape difficult situation Transformation to receive food Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Rock in sea created by magic
Carried in tale types

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