Ascent to sky on feather — Mythoi

Motif

Ascent to sky on feather.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Transportation to or from upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F61.2

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 39 receipt

Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 311 n. 118a.

Within the index

Filed under Person wafted to sky.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ascent to sky by sticking to magic feather Ascent to sky on eagle-down rope

Filed beside it

Ascent to sky on cloud Transportation from heaven in mist

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 Transformation to receive food 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.)

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