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Motifs
- Mermaid's hair reaches her waist. B81.9.1
- Mermaid's singing causes sleep. Girl tumbles from boat and drowns. B81.11
- Possession of mermaid's belt gives power over her. (Cf. D1057.) D1410.4
- Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger. K2112.1.1
- Devil would be maid's paramour. (Cf. G303.9.4.7.) T91.2.1
- The meal of beans. One of the old maid's three teeth breaks off. X754