Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man — Mythoi

Motif

Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Vegetation spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F441.2.1.3

Filed across the traditions

Norse MacCulloch Eddic 205.

Within the index

Filed under Wood-nymph.

Filed beside it

Wood-nymph comes to the fire to warm Wood-nymph with breasts so long that she throws them over her shoulder. (Cf. F232.2, F460.1.2, G123.) Tree maidens bathe at midnight in lake

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