Water-spirits have laws — Mythoi

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Water-spirits have laws.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.3.4

Within the index

Filed under Social life among water-spirits.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Water-spirits must be in water before midnight; delay is punished with death indicated by blood in water Water-spirits must be in water before dawn; delay is punished with death. (Cf. F451.3.2.1. and cross-references there given.)

Filed beside it

Water-spirits have family life under water Water-spirits have likings and occupations like human beings Water-spirits have kingdom under water: queen, king, attendants, vassals Water-spirits visited by mortal

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