Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea

Motif

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

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

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

EstonianHartland Science of Fairy Tales 201
Irish mythCross
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 26
LappishQvigstad FFC LX 46 Nos. 58–63
North CarolinaBrown Collection I 636
JewishNeuman
IndiaThompson-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

Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.)Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.)

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