Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Swan maiden" in English language version.
The essence of the story is the capture of a bride by a young man who seizes her garment and thus gets her in manu, as the Roman lawyers say. She bears him children, but, on recovering her garment, flies away and is no more heard of.
... fairy-tale type AT 400 (The Man on the Quest for His Lost Wife), the basis of which is usually considered to be the introductory part that contains the Swan Maiden motive. The hero wins as his wife a swan maiden by taking possession of her clothing of feathers which she has left on the bank of a lake. He keeps the clothing of feathers hidden, but after some time his wife finds them and flies away.
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)Dans les contes du Cambodge, de Siam et de Birmanie, la fille céleste est encore proche de la femme-oiseau: elle laisse ses ailes au bord de l'étang où elle vient se baigne.[In tales from Cambodia, Siam and Burma, the celestial maiden is even closer to the bird-woman: she leaves her wings at the margin of the lake where she has come to bathe.]
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: CS1 maint: location (link)[In] Type 400, "The Man in Quest of his Lost Wife", where the female partner represents the supernatural, the male the human being, a type which is best known as "The Tale of the Swan Maiden".
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