Wood-nymph comes to the fire to warm

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Wood-nymph comes to the fire to warm.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Vegetation spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F441.2.1.1

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Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Tempest Act 1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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DanishKristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 38ff., (1928) 26ff.
FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 56**
Finnish-SwedishWessman 49 No. 398.

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Wood-nymph with breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F460.1.2, G123.)Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man Tree maidens bathe at midnight in lake

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