Mermaid leads people astray

Motif

Mermaid leads people astray.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Fish-men. · view the constellation · filed as B81.3

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Fb "havfrue" I 569b.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her

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 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 Miscellaneous actions of mermaid

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