Perilous river as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F767.1.)

Motif

Perilous river as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F767.1.)

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Bounds of the otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F141.1.1

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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.

JewishNeuman
Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 78, III 165
N. Am. IndianThompson Tales 140
Africa (Yoruba)Ellis 245 No. 1.
general *Patch PMLA XXXIII 630, 638ff.
general Alphabet No. 603. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under River as barrier to otherworld. (Cf. F162.2.)

Filed beside it

River that cannot be crossed by mortals River between the realms of giants and gods never freezes

Travels with

Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable

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