Mermaid warns of bad weather — Mythoi

Motif

Mermaid warns of bad weather.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Fish-men. · view the constellation · filed as B81.7

Cited in the index

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 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 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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