Mermaid captured — Mythoi

Motif

Mermaid captured.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Fish-men. · view the constellation · filed as B81.13.11

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous actions of mermaid.

1 finer motif beneath it

Mermaid caught by fishermen

Filed beside it

Mermaid asks captain to move boat which blocks entrance to her dwelling Mermaid is washed up on beach Sight of mermaid bathing makes man immortal Mermaid gives mortals gold from sea bottom Giant mermaid (man) cast ashore Mermaid sings divinely in church (before enticing man away) Mermaid appears as omen of catastrophe Curse by mermaid Mermaid ruins seducer of her adopted daughter Mermaid prevents raising of sunken church bell. (Cf. C401.4.) Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake

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