μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Siren. Bird with woman's head.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Bird-men. · view the constellation · filed as B53

Filed across the traditions
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 26. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "sirène"
  • Gascon Bladé II 342 No. 10
  • Jewish Neuman.
  • general *Encyclopaedia Britannica s.v. "sirens"
  • general Bolte Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 310 n. 1 (here considered as half fish, half woman)
  • general Roscher Lexikon s. v. "Seirenen"
  • general Penzer VI 282 n. 6
  • general *Frazer Apollodorus I 21, II 291 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. III
  • general *Weicker Der Seelenvogel in d. alten Literatur und Kunst. – Slavic: Máchal 260
Within the index

Filed under Bird-men.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Siren in mermaid form Drowning man rescued by siren Man suckled by siren Gold thrown on shore by siren Siren's song causes sleep
Filed beside it
Sphinx. Has face of woman, body and tail of lion, wings of bird Harpy. Bird with arms and breasts of woman Man with bird's head Garuda-bird. Lower part man, upper part bird "Finngálkn", bird with a man's head
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: rivaling the gods Transformation to escape lover Magic music Rocks moved by magic Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead Miraculous conception

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