μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • NorwegianChild I 364.
Within the index

Filed under Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: beast-husband staying too long at home: becomes sick
Filed beside it
Tabu: merman's wife not to stay till church benedictionTabu: wife of supernatural husband seeing old homeGolden apple thrown to remind merman's wife not to forget to return to him
Travels with
Tabu: staying too long in fairyland. (Cf. C713.3.)

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