μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 31.
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Filed under Punishment: transformation. (Cf. D661.)

8 finer motifs beneath it
Punishment: Loki's son transformed into wolf which tears his brother to piecesPunishment: woman transformed into birdPunishment: transformation into frogPunishment: transformation into monkeyPunishment: man transformed to a mass of wormsPunishment: transformation to assPunishment: transformation to dogPunishment: transformation to calf
Filed beside it
Punishment: transformation of lovers into lion and lioness for desecrating temple. They have had sexual relations in the temple. It was believed that lions do not mate with each other; hence their sin could not be repeatedPunishment: calf's head in murderer's hand turns to corpse's head. (Cf. Q211.)Transformation to stone as punishmentPunishment: transformation into other object
Travels with
Mutinous clerics expelled in shapes of swine. (Cf. Q551.3.2.)

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