Wood-nymph comes to the fire to warm — Mythoi

Motif

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Filed across the traditions

Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 38ff., (1928) 26ff.
Finnish Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 56**
Finnish-Swedish Wessman 49 No. 398.

Within the index

Filed under Wood-nymph.

Filed beside it

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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