Nature of the otherworld

Motif

Nature of the otherworld.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Nature of the otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F160

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
general Wimberly 139ff. Irish myth: *Cross, Beal XXI 329

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14 finer motifs beneath it

Otherworld overseas confused with otherworld underground Fairy otherworld confused with land of the dead. (Cf. A671.0.4.)Pagan otherworld identified with Christian paradise (heaven). (Cf. A694.1.)Otherworld as great plain. (Cf. A663.)Otherworld as valley Weather in otherworld Landscape of otherworld Buildings in otherworld Habitable caves and mounds in otherworld Characteristics of otherworld dwellings Furniture and objects in the otherworld Inhabitants of otherworld Villages in otherworld Nature of the otherworld – miscellaneous

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