μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • NorseMacCulloch Eddic 261
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 55 Nos. 468–469
  • FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 58
  • GermanicMeyer Germanen 199ff., 202ff., De la Saussaye 323
  • SlavicMáchal 254f., 271f.
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 126 No. 58
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 42 No. 30
  • ArmenianAnanikian 84
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 316
  • general *BP III 322
  • general *Fb "nøkke" II 725ab. England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman, Ireland: Beal VII 11
Within the index

Filed under Form and appearance of water-spirits. See F420.5.2.7.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Water-maidens are of unusual beautyWater-maidens mute
Filed beside it
Water-spirit as manWater-spirits in animal formWater-spirits in abnormal formWater-spirits invisibleDress of water-spiritsWater-spirits appearing like human beings are recognized by traces of water
Travels with
Nereid. A sea-maiden
Carried in tale types

wander