μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • IcelandicHjálmtèrs saga ok Ölvers 472, Boberg
  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index

Filed under Motive for transformation of others.

1 finer motif beneath it
King of birds transforms his quails into sticks and pebbles so king and his hunters and hawks cannot kill them
Filed beside it
Transformation as punishmentTransformation to cure inconstant husband. He falls in love with another woman: his wife changes him to negro. He then falls in love with negress: wife changes him to ass. He then falls in love with she-ass. Finally restored to his original formTransformation as rewardTransformation of woman by goddess to preserve chastityTransformation of enemy to be rid of him

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