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The Salmon story figures prominently in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, which recounts the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the story, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom (an Tobar Segais) from nine hazel trees that surrounded the well. By this act, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge.
Several notable scholars believe that Pushkin's is an original tale based on the Grimms' tale, [2] "The Fisherman and His Wife". [a]Mark Azadovsky wrote monumental articles on Pushkin's sources, his nurse "Arina Rodionovna", and the "Brothers Grimm" demonstrating that tales recited to Pushkin in his youth were often recent translations propagated "word of mouth to a largely unlettered ...
There is a tale dating in the 1st century BC about a giant fish which swallowed a boat. [3]: 126 Some tales involved drunk men turning into fishes. [3]: 126 There are also tales involving fish-demons (drunk men transformed into fishes) which could sometimes marry women. [3]: 126 Other tales involved fishes turning into birds. [3]: 126
Fish play symbolic roles in religion, mythology, folklore, and fairy tale, where stories about fish have been told in cultures around the world for thousands of years. Fish have similarly been depicted in art, literature, film, and music in many cultures. Academic study of fish in culture is called ethnoichthyology. Both academically and in ...
In English, female merfolk are called mermaids, although in a strict sense, mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance; male merfolk are called mermen. Depending on the story, they can be described as either ugly or beautiful.
The bishop-fish, a piscine humanoid reported in Poland in the 16th century. Aquatic humanoids appear in legend and fiction. [1] " Water-dwelling people with fully human, fish-tailed or other compound physiques feature in the mythologies and folklore of maritime, lacustrine and riverine societies across the planet."
The Fish and the Ring" is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. This tale has several parallels in the literature and folklore of various cultures. This tale has several parallels in the literature and folklore of various cultures.
In "British Folk Tales and Legends a Sampler" Katherine Briggs pp.40-43 noted a British variant collected in 1924 called 'The Old Woman who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle' with a magical fairy rather than a fish. This was also the title of Rumer Godden's 1972 re-telling, based upon a family tradition of story-telling.