Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.)

Motif

Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.)

Captives and fugitives. · Rescues. · Rescue of abandoned or lost persons. · view the constellation · filed as R137

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 7
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Rescue of abandoned or lost persons.

Filed beside it

Exposed or abandoned child rescued Vanished wife rescued Abandoned children (wife, etc.) find way back by clue (bread-crumb, grain, pebble, etc.). They have dropped the objects while being led away Rescue from shipwreck Rescue from well Exposed children swallowed by earth; vomited up when grown. (Cf. F900.)Abandoned man befriended by a Centaur. (Cf. B21.)

Travels with

Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea

wander