Miscellaneous actions of mermaid.
Animals. · Mythical animals. · Fish-men. · view the constellation · filed as B81.13
Motif
Within the index
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 dwellingMermaid is washed up on beachSight of mermaid bathing makes man immortalMermaid gives mortals gold from sea bottomGiant mermaid (man) cast ashoreMermaid sings divinely in church (before enticing man away)Mermaid appears as omen of catastropheCurse by mermaidMermaid ruins seducer of her adopted daughterMermaid prevents raising of sunken church bell. (Cf. C401.4.)Mermaid capturedMermaid lives for three hundred years under lake
Filed beside it
Mermaids are like fishes in the water, like men on landWoman from water worldMermaids from Pharoah's children. They were drowned in the Red SeaMermaid marries manMermaid leads people astrayMermaid captures a maidenMermaid sits on knight's bedpostMermaid has human midwifeMermaid warns of bad weatherMermaid cannot pass through iceAppearance of mermaidMermaid swallows manMermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drownsWhen mermaid appears