μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • LivonianLoorits FFC XLVI 40 No. 25
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 45f. Nos. 55, 57.
  • general Fb "havfrue" IV 204a. – Krappe Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen 159 (1931) 161–175
Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it
Mermaid has son by human fatherMermaids tear their mortal lovers to pieces
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 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 appearsMiscellaneous actions of mermaid

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