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Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka (ed. Andrews) 82
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 723
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general Fb "havmand" IV 205a
  • general *Chauvin V 7 No. 3. – Arabian: Burton V 215, VII 254, 264, 270, IX 169 n., 179, 182ff.
Within the index

Filed under Fish-men.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Merman marries maiden Merman demands cattle as offering Youth takes service with merman Merman teaches music Merman attacked by putting steel in the water Merman caught by fisherman (released) Merman lays hands on side of canoe
Filed beside it
Seal-man Monster half-man, half-fish Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea Fish with human face
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Transformation: merman to horse. (Cf. B82.) Images at church turn backs as mark of disfavor. Done when abandoned woman or merman enters. (Cf. B82, D1622.)

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