μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

  • EnglishChild I 306ff., Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII xxxv, *Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • PhilippineFansler MAFLS XII 247 No. 29
  • AfricaFrobenius Atlantis I 108.
  • general *Type 410
  • general BP I 9, II 236 n., 271, 561
  • general Wimberly 335ff.
  • general Hartland Science 238 f., 241
  • general Taylor Washington Univ. Studies IV (2) (1917) 177 n. 9
  • general Klapper 112. Irish myth: *Cross
  • general France: Sébillot France I 244, III 291
Within the index

Filed under Disenchantment by submission. The helper must submit to the will of the enchanted person.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Beauty and the beast. Disenchantment of animal by being kissed by woman (man)Three redeeming kisses. (Die weisse Frau.) A woman can be disenchanted from animal form if man will kiss her three times, each time when she is in the form of a different terrifying animalDisenchantment from tree form by embrace of loverDisenchantment by enduring animal's embrace
Filed beside it
Disenchantment by obedience and kindnessLoathly Lady. Man disenchants loathsome woman by embracing herLoathly bridegroom. Woman disenchants loathsome man by embracing himDisenchantment of animal by admission to woman's bedDisenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monsterDisenchantment by promise to marryDisenchantment by sexual intercourse. Man disenchants woman in form of a bearDisenchantment by feeding enchanted animals
Travels with
Tabu: kissing. Usually causes disenchantment or magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D735, D2003.)
Carried in tale types

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