The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which...

over the swan maidens, causing him to lose his power over them and he dies. In an apotheosis, they, who transform back into regular maidens, watch as...

Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely...

his wife after stealing her clothes. The tale has been compared to the swan maiden, a character from Eurasian tales that appears in a similar narrative...

an enchanted forest where he encounters a mysterious woman (clearly a swan maiden or fairy) in the act of bathing, while clutching a gold necklace. They...

"The Swan Queen" is a Lithuanian fairy tale related to the character of the swan maiden. In the tale, a peasant couple find a swan or goose and bring...

Sterope Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human to swan Caladrius (Roman) – white bird with healing...

[Series: Comparative Studies of the Folktale (2) Tennin Nyoobo/The Swan Maiden]. In: The Seijo Bungei: the Seijo University arts and literature quarterly...

the Looking Glass List of angels in theology Nymph Selkie (seal maidens) Swan maiden Valkyries Feather cloak Tennin at GODS of Japan, A-to-Z Photo Dictionary...

("The Swan Maiden"): a poor human youth is directed to the place where supernatural women bathe by a cow or a deer; the women may be Swan Maidens, a celestial...

Leavy, Barbara Fass (1994). "Urvaśī and the Swan Maidens: The Runaway Wife". In Search of the Swan Maiden. NYU Press. pp. 33–63. ISBN 978-0-8147-5268-5...

English: "Maiden Lene from Sondervand") is a Danish folktale collected by author Svend Grundtvig. It features versions of the swan maiden, a mythic female...

a barren island. There the adult son rescues the life of a swan. This swan is a swan maiden, an enchanted princess. She creates a beautiful city for the...

Völsung. There were also the three swan-maidens, also described as valkyrjur, and owned sets of "swan's garments" or "swan cloaks" (álptarhamir; sing.:álptarhamr)...

with the character of the swan maiden. In the same vein, William Bernard McCarthy reported that in Irish tradition the swan maiden is frequently appears in...

most-performed Japanese Noh plays. It is an example of the traditional swan maiden motif. The earliest recorded version of the legend dates to the eighth...

Slagfiðr followed, never to return. In another version, Völundr married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Völundr. In...

folktales. These stories of selkie-wives are also recognized to be of the swan maiden motif type. There are now hundreds of seal bride type tales that have...

Rus' legend based on the original depiction of the Greek sirens. The swan maidens in the folktales of cultures such as Sweden, Germany, Romania, Serbia...

feed it. When the son grows of age he takes care of his blind mother. Swan maiden Yuki-onna Hagoromo (play) Seki, Keigo (1963). Folktales of Japan. University...

white bird": 'swan', 'spoonbill' (although he disagreed with this one), 'Swan-Maiden', 'Swan-Maiden (in fairy tales)' and 'young female swan' (which he considered...

of Khorassan. The tale is related to the international cycle of the swan maiden, a creature that alternates between human and avian forms, and to tale...

younger than the verse. The poem opens by describing the flight of three swan-maidens identified in stanza 1 as meyjar, drósir, alvitr and suðrœnar ('young...

that woman will become the hero to defeat the monster. The theme of the swan-maiden, which perhaps occurs in parts of Polynesia and widely in Indonesia,...

Houri Nymph Peri, winged female creatures of Persian mythology Rusalka Swan maiden Tian Tennin, a Japanese development of Indian apsaras Valkyrie from Norse...

captor. This is commonly recognized as the "feather garment" motif in swan maiden-type tales. The cohuleen druith was also considered to be of red color...

found in Guo Pu's Mythical Tales (玄中記) from the same period. This "quasi-Swan Maiden" story was possibly told to explain why some large birds carried off...

film 2008 The Border Katie Johanson Episode: "Grave Concern" Super Why! Swan Maiden Voice, 2 episodes Céline: Her Life Story Margaret TV film 2009 Maggie...

Stephens and Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius. It features versions of the swan maiden, a mythic female character that alternates between human and animal shapes...

the swan maiden, which appears across Eurasia in several mythologies. The main plot points between both stories are that a flock of bird women (swans or...