μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Miscellaneous actions of mermaid.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Fish-men. · view the constellation · filed as B81.13

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Filed under Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea.

12 finer motifs beneath 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 captured Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake
Filed beside it
Mermaids are like fishes in the water, like men on land Woman from water world Mermaids from Pharoah's children. They were drowned in the Red Sea Mermaid marries man Mermaid leads people astray Mermaid captures a maiden Mermaid sits on knight's bedpost Mermaid has human midwife Mermaid warns of bad weather Mermaid cannot pass through ice Appearance of mermaid Mermaid swallows man Mermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drowns When mermaid appears

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