Motif
Human or nymph reduced to voice
human_or_nymph_reduced_to_voice
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Multiform Beings and Altered Bodies. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 5221-5284 confidence: medium
A historical explanation imagines a nymph lost in the woods; seekers heard only their own echoing voices and reported that she had been changed into a voice.
The rationalizing explanation reports that a lost nymph was said to have been changed into a voice.
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