Flight on artificial wings — Mythoi

Motif

Flight on artificial wings.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1021.1

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus II 139 n. 2 (Daedalus) → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
India Thompson-Balys
Chinese Ferguson 35.
general *Type 575
general *BP II 131
general Penzer IX 149
general Köhler-Bolte I 120
general *Chauvin V 231 No. 130

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary flights through air.

Filed beside it

Extraordinary effect of high flight Man learns to fly Man kicked so hard that he flies through the air and is never seen again

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.) Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

Carried in tale types

The Prince's Wings · ATU 575 2 recorded variants

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