Bridge to otherworld — Mythoi

Motif

Bridge to otherworld.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Access to otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F152

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 53 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 130, 305
Siberian Holmberg Siberian 488ff.
Melanesia Codrington 257
Eskimo (Labrador) Hawkes GSCan XIV 153
N. Am. Indian Brinton Myths of the New World (New York, 1868) 248, (Menomini): Skinner PaAM XIII 86.
general *Type 471
general Encyc. Rel. Ethics II 852ff.
general Patch PMLA XXXIII 630ff., Other World 374 s. v. "bridge"
general Ward II 399, 441
general Róheim Animism 39ff.
general Fb "bro" IV 62b
general Darmesteter Sacred Books of the East IV 212f.
general Alphabet No. 603. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Access to otherworld.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Bridge to otherworld guarded by animals Materials of bridge to otherworld Slamming drawbridge to otherworld. Slams as hero leaves and (almost) injures him. He has failed to do the one compulsory thing. (Percival.)

Filed beside it

Way to otherworld hard to find Entrance to other world guarded by monsters (or animals) Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged Road to otherworld Otherworld reached by diving into water (of well or lake) Path to sun on sun's rays (eyelashes). (Cf. F152.1.2.) Journey to otherworld by clinging magically to an object Door to otherworld. (Cf. F91.) Journey to otherworld in boat Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.) Other means to reach the otherworld

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Bridge to world of dead cut from under wicked person so that he falls into hell. (Cf. F152.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer Obstacle flight. Fugitives throw objects behind them which magically become obstacles in pursuer's path Reversed obstacle flight. Magic obstacles raised in front of fugitive Ladder to upper world Ascent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chain

Carried in tale types

The Bridge to the Otherworld · ATU 471 2 recorded variants

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