μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Kingdom of fishes.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Animal kingdom (or community). · view the constellation · filed as B223

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“It was quite strange to them, but they thought it might be good food. When the woman had finished her work, she went to the edge of the water to wash her hands. As soon as she put her hands into the water, something seized them and pulled her underneath the sea. She had been taken by the Killer-Whales, who had come to have revenge on the man for killing their friend. The man fcllowed the trail of his wife and her captors under the sea.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 62 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • JapaneseHartland Science 174, Ikeda. N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 342 n. 236.
Within the index

Filed under Animal kingdom (or community).

1 finer motif beneath it
Kingdom of sharks
Filed beside it
Animal kingdom – quadrupedsKingdom (land) of birdsKingdom of insectsKingdom of reptilesKingdom of amphibia
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Animals carry menJourney to earthly paradise. Land of happiness. (Cf. F132.1.)Princess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). (Cf. R10.1.)Light extinguished and woman stolen. (Cf. R10.1.)

wander