Giant fish — Mythoi

Motif

Giant fish.

Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Giant animals. · view the constellation · filed as B874

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.

Irish mythCross
JewishNeuman
Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 40, 269f., 1014, II 29
JapaneseIkeda. Eskimo (Mackenzie Area): Jenness 78, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 640, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 539.
general *Chauvin VII 8 No. 373A n. 2
general *Reinhard PMLA XXXVIII 447 n. 81

Within the index

Filed under Giant animals. (Cf. B16.1, B16.4, B15.7.12)

6 finer motifs beneath it

Giant river catfish Giant eel Giant whale Giant salmon Giant shark Giant clam

Filed beside it

Animal extraordinarily heavy for size Giant beasts Giant eagle Giant gull Giant falcon Giant auk Giant insects Giant reptiles Giant amphibia and other animal forms Giant mythical animals Giant flock of animals (birds.)

Carried in tale types

The Great Fish · ATU 1960B1 recorded variant

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