μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 300 n. 100, 310 n. 117c.
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 124f
  • Africa (Hottentot) Bleek 57 No. 25, (Angola): Chatelain 145 No. 15.
Within the index

Filed under Reasons for voluntary transformation.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Transformation to buffalo so as to eat grass Witch transforms self to animal (hare, pig) so as to suck cows
Filed beside it
Transformation to reach difficult place 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 steal. (Cf. K300.) Transformation to seduce Miscellaneous reasons for voluntary transformation
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 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 reach difficult place Transformation to escape difficult situation Burning magically evaded. (Cf. D1656.) Resuscitation by arrangement of members. Parts of a dismembered corpse are brought together and resuscitation follows. (Sometimes combined with other methods.) Resuscitated eaten animal. (Cf. E171.) An animal is eaten. When his bones are reassembled he revives

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