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

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

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen I 78, III 165
N. Am. Indian Thompson 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 (Thompson’s cf.)

Heathen city surrounded by a yellow river, furious and impassable

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