Water-maidens make conditions for lovers

Motif

Water-maidens make conditions for lovers.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Water-spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F420.6.1.5

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

GermanKurs 322
FrenchSébillot France II 409
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Marriage or liaison of mortals and water-spirits.

Filed beside it

Water-man woos mortal girl. (Cf. F451.5.18.)Water-spirit offers gift to mortal to win love Mortal goes to home of water-spirits and marries. (Cf. F301.3.)Water-maiden goes to home of mortal and marries Offspring of marriage between mortal and water-spirit Water-spirit surprises and rapes a mortal woman. A son is born who is sleepless

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