City sinks in the sea — Mythoi

Motif

City sinks in the sea.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance. · view the constellation · filed as F944

Filed across the traditions

England Baughman
Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3610.
general Schmersel Die Sage von der versunkenen Stadt
general Schütte Danske Studier (1925) 117
general Le Braz Légende de la Mort (Paris, 1902)
general **Smyser Harward Studies and Notes Phil. and Lit. XV (1933) 49ff.

Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance.

4 finer motifs beneath it

City sinks in sea or lake as punishment Ancient homeland sinks beneath the waves Island sinks into sea Earth splits and plain sinks to become bottom of lake when tabu is broken

Filed beside it

Building sinks into earth Man sinks into earth Sinking into mud in duel Person gradually submerged by sea Ground opens and swallows forest Object sinks into earth Extraordinary underground (underwater) disappearance – miscellaneous

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “sinks” · wander