μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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, IV 204a. Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 143ff., (1928) 101ff.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Mermaid prophesies
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 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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