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

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

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

GermanEbermann Donausagen 120 No. 75, Janosch 13
DanishKristensen 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

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

wander