μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Estonian Hartland Science of Fairy Tales 201
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 26
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 46 Nos. 58–63
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 636
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general BP III 324
  • general *Fb "havfrue" I, 569, IV 204a
  • general Thien Motive in König Rother 42
  • general Tobler Epiphanie der Seele 98. – Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "poisson". Icel.: *Boberg
Within the index

Filed under Fish-men.

15 finer motifs beneath 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 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
Filed beside it
Seal-man Monster half-man, half-fish Merman Fish with human face
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.) Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)

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