Wood-nymph — Mythoi

Motif

Wood-nymph.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Vegetation spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F441.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

Swedish Hartmann 26, 27
Slavic Máchal 262ff.
Armenian Ananikian 84.
general Type 480
general Roberts 121

Within the index

Filed under Tree-spirit.

4 finer motifs beneath 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.) Wood-nymph wooes and then deserts man Tree maidens bathe at midnight in lake

Filed beside it

Tree-spirit persuades man to spare tree Dryad. Female spirit dwelling among trees Hamadryad. Female spirit of a particular tree

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

God's home under tree of life. (Cf. F441.2.1.)

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