Search
Motifs
- Giant mermaid (man) cast ashore. B81.13.5
- Whale cast ashore – three golden teeth and five ounces in each of these teeth. B874.3.1
- Giant whale cast ashore on the night of Christ's Nativity: "fifty men were on the upper parts of its head, and (there was) the limit of vision between each two of them. Such was the amount of ground which the animal occupied. B874.3.2
- Magic sand causes crocodile to go ashore. (Cf. D935.1.) D1449.5
- Demon seduces princess as she bathes at seashore. F402.1.15.1
- Dwarfs live in the high banks of the seashore. F451.4.1.8
- Crab comes ashore: killed by fox. J512.1
- Prophecy: death on seashore. M341.3.4
- The fourteen lucky daughters. The husband leaves his wife, who has given birth to fourteen girls, thinking he is persecuted by bad luck because of failure to have a son. On the seashore, the girls find precious stones. The wife, now prosperous, finds her husband among beggars. N231
- Man springs ashore and pushes companion in boat out to sea. S141.1