Motif
human speech and supernatural music retained in animal form
human_speech_and_supernatural_music_retained_in_animal_form
A motif of the Shapeshifter and Transformation family, within the sub-family Animal Bodies and Soul Transmigration. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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Gods and Fighting Men CHAPTER XIII. HIS CALL TO CONNLA / CHAPTER XIV. TADG IN MANANNAN'S ISLANDS / CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN / BOOK FIVE: THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR; lines 5141-5243 confidence: high
Aoife repents in part and allows the children to keep their speech, sense, and nobility, and to sing music of the Sidhe; she says they will spend nine hundred years on the water.
Aoife allows the swan-children to keep their own speech, sense, and nobility and to sing sweet Sidhe music; Lir later notices the swans have living human voices.
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