Marriage to fish (whale). (Cf. B612.)

Motif

Marriage to fish (whale). (Cf. B612.)

Animals. · Marriage of person to animal. · Marriage of person to animal. · view the constellation · filed as B603

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 24

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
JapaneseIkeda. – *N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 341 n. 231.

Within the index

Filed under Marriage of person to animal. Extremely common. Only a few references are given.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Marriage to shrimp Marriage to eel

Filed beside it

Various animals tried out as wives. Only one accepted Animal husband provides characteristic animal food Marriage of person to beast. (Cf. B641, B651)Marriage to bird. (Cf. B644.)Marriage to reptile. (Cf. B613, B622.1, B642, B652.)Marriage to dragon

Travels with

Fish paramour. (Cf. B603.)

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