μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Journey to earthly paradise. Land of happiness. (Cf. F132.1.)

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Journey to terrestrial otherworlds. · view the constellation · filed as F111

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“It was quite strange to them, but they thought it might be good food. When the woman had finished her work, she went to the edge of the water to wash her hands. As soon as she put her hands into the water, something seized them and pulled her underneath the sea. She had been taken by the Killer-Whales, who had come to have revenge on the man for killing their friend. The man fcllowed the trail of his wife and her captors under the sea.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 62 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • EnglishWells 145 (Parthenope of Blois)
  • CelticK. Zimmer Brendans Meerfahrt (Zeitschrift für deutsche Altertum XXXIII [1889] 129–220, 257–338)
  • IcelandicBoberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • HinduTawney I 525
  • ChineseGiles 8ff., 397ff.
  • general **Nutt in Meyer Voyage of Bran I 105ff.
  • general Patch *Other World 381 s. v. "paradise"
  • general *Graf La leggenda del paradiso terrestre (Torino, 1878)
  • general *BP IV 269 n. 1
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 48
  • general Norlind Skattsägner 88ff.
  • general Hartland Science 194, 199, 202
  • general *Loomis White Magic 116. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Journey to terrestrial otherworlds.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Four earthly paradisesSwineherd finds terrestrial paradise while looking for lost sowJourney to Isle of LaughterVoyage to Land of PromiseVoyage to Land of Lotus EatersParadise of the Blessed, a subterranean worldLand where all creatures are friendly to one anotherVoyage to land without evil
Filed beside it
Wonder voyagesJourney to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etcLand of menJourney inside the earthJourney to the Land of the UnbornJourney to the Land of the ImmortalsJourney to the Land of the ThundersJourney to Mother of TimeJourney to world of spiritsJourney to land of giantsJourney to land of little men (pygmies)Journey to land of demonsJourney to otherworld where people are made whole (cured)Journey to land without sky: takes whole life. Premature agingJourney to animal kingdom. Usually undergroundMiscellaneous otherworlds
Travels with
Earthly paradise on mountain. (Cf. F111.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Kingdom of fishesAnimals carry menPrincess (maiden) abducted by monster (ogre). (Cf. R10.1.)Light extinguished and woman stolen. (Cf. R10.1.)

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