μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Water-spirits protect and warn sailor against storm and in tempest.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.5.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 58 Nos. 495–500
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 46 No. 58
  • Livonian Loorits FFC LXVI 41 No. 29
  • Austrian Gloning 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 poor Water-spirits help lovers Water-spirits work as servants for mortal for small compensation Water-spirits work as servants for mortal but disappear when compensation is offered or origin suspected Water-spirits work at night in home of mortals Water-spirits give gifts to mortals. (Cf. F342, F451.5.1.5.) Water-spirits give advice Water-spirits adopt human foundling Water-spirits save man from drowning
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Water-spirits are prophetic. (Cf. F420.5.1.1.)

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