μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Submarine otherworld.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Location of otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F133

Filed across the traditions
  • Scotch Campbell Tales III 420
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 112f.
  • North Carolina Brown Collection I 636
  • Breton *Le Braz Légende de la Mort II 37ff.
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Slavic Máchal 270
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Japanese Ikeda
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 69
  • Maori Clark III
  • N. Am. Indian (Klikitat) Jacobs U Wash II 7
  • Africa Werner African 188, 206, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 39 No. 4, (Basuto): Jacottet 122 No. 17, 204 No. 30, 224 No. 33.
  • general Patch PMLA XXXIII 627 n. 92, Other World *380 s. v. "Land-beneath-the-waves"
  • general Wimberly 134
  • general Ward II 525
  • general Chauvin V 151 No. 73
  • general Penzer VI 280
  • general Smith Dragon 109. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Location of otherworld.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Marine counterpart to land. All that exists on earth has its parallel in the sea Empty under-water house Submarine monastery. (Cf. F725.6.) Otherworld at bottom of pond Otherworld at bottom of well
Filed beside it
Land of India (Greece) as otherworld Spain as otherworld Ancient Ireland as location of otherworld Otherworld in hollow mountain Otherworld on lofty mountain Otherworld on island Bruidhen (banqueting-hall) as otherworld Direction of otherworld Distance of otherworld

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