64 motifs match “mermaid”  ·  back to the chapters

• Siren in mermaid form. B53.0.1
• Mermaid. Woman with tail of fish. Lives in sea. B81
• Mermaids are like fishes in the water, like men on land. B81.0.1
• Mermaids from Pharoah's children. They were drowned in the Red Sea. B81.1
• Mermaid marries man. B81.2
• Mermaid has son by human father. B81.2.1
• Mermaids tear their mortal lovers to pieces. B81.2.2
• Mermaid leads people astray. B81.3
• Mermaid appears at midnight, entices people into water. B81.3.1
• Mermaid appears once each year, sings in choir, entices young man to follow her. B81.3.2
• Mermaid captures a maiden. B81.4
• Mermaid sits on knight's bedpost. B81.5
• Mermaid has human midwife. B81.6
• Mermaid warns of bad weather. B81.7
• Mermaid prophesies. B81.7.1
• Mermaid cannot pass through ice. B81.8
• Appearance of mermaid. B81.9
• Mermaid's hair reaches her waist. B81.9.1
• Mermaid has wooly hair. B81.9.1.1
• Mermaid has large breasts. B81.9.2
• Mermaid half-beautiful, half-monstrous. B81.9.3
• Giant mermaid. B81.9.4
• Skin of mermaid. B81.9.5
• Mermaid has white skin. B81.9.5.1
• Mermaid has brown skin. B81.9.5.2
• Mermaid swallows man. B81.10
• Mermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drowns. B81.11
• When mermaid appears. B81.12
• Mermaid appears at midnight. B81.12.1
• Mermaid appears once each year. B81.12.2
• Miscellaneous actions of mermaid. B81.13
• Mermaid asks captain to move boat which blocks entrance to her dwelling. B81.13.1
• Mermaid is washed up on beach. B81.13.2
• Sight of mermaid bathing makes man immortal. B81.13.3
• Mermaid gives mortals gold from sea bottom. B81.13.4
• Giant mermaid (man) cast ashore. B81.13.5
• Mermaid sings divinely in church (before enticing man away). B81.13.6
• Mermaid appears as omen of catastrophe. B81.13.7
• Curse by mermaid. B81.13.8
• Mermaid ruins seducer of her adopted daughter. B81.13.9
• Mermaid prevents raising of sunken church bell. (Cf. C401.4.) B81.13.10
• Mermaid captured. B81.13.11
• Mermaid caught by fishermen. B81.13.11.1
• Mermaid lives for three hundred years under lake. B81.13.12
• Possession of mermaid's belt gives power over her. (Cf. D1057.) D1410.4
• Magic power of mermaid. D1719.7
• Sight of mermaid bad omen. D1812.5.1.9
• Elves get stones from fairies who get them from mermaids. The devil does the finishing work on the stones. D2066.1
• Water-maidens are of unusual beauty. F420.1.2.1
• Water-maidens mute. F420.1.2.2
• Water-maidens have long veil. F420.1.6.5
• Water-maidens dance at village fair. F420.3.2.1.1
• Water-maidens spin. F420.3.2.6
• Water-maiden enamors man and draws him under water. (Cf. F302.3.4, G264.) F420.5.2.1.1
• Water-maidens avenge selves for scorned love. F420.5.2.6.5
• Water-maiden goes to home of mortal and marries. F420.6.1.4
• Water-maidens make conditions for lovers. F420.6.1.5
• Water-maiden marries giant. (Cf. F531.5.7.) F420.6.2.2
• Water-maiden is wooed by dwarf. (Cf. F451.5.18.) F420.6.2.3
• Gigantic son of king and mermaid. F531.6.1.4
• Strong hero suckled by mermaid. Gives him strength of twelve men. F611.2.2
• Mermaid rescues heroine who has been thrown overboard. (Cf. B81.) R137
• Mermaid rescues hero (boy) from shipwreck. R138.1
• Child promised to mermaid. (Cf. B81.) S214