μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • IcelandicHálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka (ed. Andrews) 82
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 723
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-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 maidenMerman demands cattle as offeringYouth takes service with mermanMerman teaches musicMerman attacked by putting steel in the waterMerman caught by fisherman (released)Merman lays hands on side of canoe
Filed beside it
Seal-manMonster half-man, half-fishMermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in seaFish with human face
Travels with
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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