Water-giants — Mythoi

Motif

Water-giants.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.1.4.9

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 183183.— THE GIANT AND THE TAILOR.
Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 56The Legend of Nar-oong-owie,
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 35

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IcelandicBoberg.

Within the index

Filed under Water-spirits in abnormal form.

Filed beside it

Body of water-spirit is half human and half fish or snake Water-spirits have body covered with fish scales Water-spirits as dwarfs. (Cf. F451.)Water-spirits have hunchback. (Cf. F451.2.1.4.)Water-spirits with human body and webbed feet and hands Water-spirits with horse feet Water-spirits with green hair and beard Water-spirits with green teeth Water-spirit with extraordinarily long hair

Travels with

Ogress lives in water. (Cf. F420.1.4.9, F426.)

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