μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation to defeat enemies. (Cf. D615.)

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Reasons for voluntary transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D651

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“At once all the players on both sides rushed back to the center field to look. ‘“‘What is the matter?” said everyone to everyone else. “Why it must have been Manabozho; he’s done this; nobody else would dare to attack the underground gods.” When the excited players reached the center of the field they found the culprit had vanished. “Let’s all look for Mana- bozho,”’ cried someone. ‘‘We will use the power of the water for our guide.””

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 4 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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 mythCross
  • WelshMacCulloch Celtic 189
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • GreekFox 219 (Dionysus)
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Middle English Romance: Wells 103 (Alliterative Alexander Fragment A)
Within the index

Filed under Reasons for voluntary transformation.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation to kill enemyTransformation to frighten enemy. (Cf. D641.3.)Transformation to destroy enemy's propertyTransformation to ant in order to gnaw bow-strings of enemyTransformation to spy enemy's campTransformation so as to protect hero from enemy
Filed beside it
Transformation to reach difficult placeTransformation to escape difficult situationTransformation so as to rescueTransformation to travel fastTransformation to test heroesTransformation to be picked up (caught)Transformation to seek lost (or unknown) personTransformation to receive foodTransformation to steal. (Cf. K300.)Transformation to seduceMiscellaneous reasons for voluntary transformation
Travels with
Transformation combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in successive transformationsDemon in form of old woman. (Cf. C745, D651, G1263.0.1.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Form and appearance of water-spirits. See F420.5.2.7Conception from sunlightConception from wind. (Cf. A715.2, F611.1.9.)

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