μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 53 No. 445
  • IcelandicBoberg.
Within the index

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

12 finer motifs beneath it
Water-spirit as toadWater-spirit as fishWater-spirit as horseWater-spirit as bullWater-spirit as storkWater-spirit as catWater-spirit as goatWater-spirit as mouseWater-spirit as snakeWater-spirit as frogWater-spirit as ape-like creatureWater-spirit as otter
Filed beside it
Water-spirit as manWater-spirit as woman (water-nymph, water-nix). (Cf. F423.1.)Water-spirits in abnormal formWater-spirits invisibleDress of water-spiritsWater-spirits appearing like human beings are recognized by traces of water

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