Water-spirit flees if holy name, ceremony, or blessed object is used — Mythoi

Motif

Water-spirit flees if holy name, ceremony, or blessed object is used.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.5.3.4

Filed across the traditions

German Ebermann Donausagen 120 No. 75, Janosch 13
Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn (1893) 163ff., (1928) 114ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other actions of water-spirits.

Filed beside it

Water-spirits sit on beach combing their long hair Water-spirit calls human midwife. (Cf. F372.1, F451.3.5.5, F451.5.5.) Water-spirits call human godmother. (Cf. F451.5.6.) Nix flees from benediction in church Water-spirit demands food from those it takes across stream Water-spirits prophesies

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Dwarfs and Christianity. (Cf. F420.5.3.4. and cross-references there given. Cf. also F451.9.1.6.)

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