μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 58 Nos. 495–500
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 46 No. 58
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 29
  • AustrianGloning 37, Ebermann Donausagen 143 No. 88.
Within the index

Filed under Kind water-spirits.

1 finer motif beneath it
Water-spirits save shipwrecked people
Filed beside it
Water-spirits help poorWater-spirits help loversWater-spirits work as servants for mortal for small compensationWater-spirits work as servants for mortal but disappear when compensation is offered or origin suspectedWater-spirits work at night in home of mortalsWater-spirits give gifts to mortals. (Cf. F342, F451.5.1.5.)Water-spirits give adviceWater-spirits adopt human foundlingWater-spirits save man from drowning
Travels with
Water-spirits are prophetic. (Cf. F420.5.1.1.)

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