Wild man as wood-spirit.
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Vegetation spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F441.3
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 2, Canto 62
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 3, Canto 59
- Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XII XII. The Sacred Marriage
Filed across the traditions
- Irish myth *Cross
- Norse MacCulloch Eddic 280.
- general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 968–980, 984f.
- general Dickson 114 n. 37
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