551. Die Nebelnixe.

ATU-Erzähltypen

Keine belegbare Zuordnung in der geprüften Auswahl.

This observation is an explicit relationship and family fact within a local nymph legend, not a complete ATU plot by itself. Both distinct observation searches and the whole-plot search returned no tale type whose sequence matches a water nymph marrying a knight and bearing children. Water/river vocabulary in the returned tales does not supply their unrelated plots. The knight deliberately jumps with his wife and daughters into the Nebel to avoid capture; they drown, while the water nymph survives. The whole-plot ATU search gives no fitting type. ATU 1120 has an ogre and wife who intend to drown their helper and a mistaken exchange that drowns the ogre’s wife; none of that plot is present. ATU 1297* is a fool-and-comrades sequence in which companions follow one who jumps into water; there are no followers or foolish attempt to cross. This reported apparition describes the surviving nymph’s local lament, heard from the river or seen walking the castle rampart. Both the individual search and the whole-story query found no matching ATU plot. It is a local belief about one spirit, not a full tale sequence that can be assigned a tale type.

Thompson-Motive

I checked the actual drowning-related retrieval candidates. J2146.2 requires a man to leap into a river to save his treasure; this knight leaps with his family to avoid capture and has no treasure. F402.1.8 requires spirits to put a corpse in a river; here living people choose the jump themselves and die. The additional wording search returned no closer motif, so I do not classify a generic drowning as either entry.

• Thompson F420.6.1.6 · Offspring of marriage between mortal and water-spirit.

  Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The text explicitly says that a water nymph becomes the knight’s wife and bears him two daughters. Thompson F420.6.1.6 is “Offspring of marriage between mortal and water-spirit,” which directly captures this mixed marriage and its children. Its authored prefix F420.6.1 is “Marriage or liaison of mortals and water-spirits.” I read the nearby F420.6.2.1 (water-man marries fairy) and .2 (water-maiden marries giant); those describe unions between supernatural beings or with a giant, whereas this husband is a human knight, so the child F420.6.1.6 is the precise fit.

  • „Der letzte Ritter von Gülzow liebte die in der Nebel wohnende Nixe leidenschaftlich und sie wurde sein Weib, das ihm zwei liebliche Töchter gebar.“

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• Thompson F420.1.5.2 · Mysterious voice water-spirit is calling from sea.

  Mögliche Zuordnung · Textstelle

  Textbelege und Katalog

  The source says the nymph’s lamenting songs can be heard “aus dem Flusse herauf tönen”; Thompson F420.1.5.2 is “Mysterious voice water-spirit is calling from sea.” The auditory manifestation of a water-spirit from water is close, but the source calls it a lament rather than a call, identifies the singer, and specifies a river rather than a sea; I therefore retain only a possible match. F420.1.5.1 requires an invisible spirit clapping hands and speaking, while the source says she is also visibly seen on the rampart and mentions neither clapping nor speech. E321.4 concerns a dead husband visiting his widow and new husband, not a surviving water-spirit mourning a drowned spouse and children; F420.5.2.12 requires the water-spirit to cause illness or death, but this nymph only laments.

  • „Noch jetzt kann man in stillen Nächten ihre Klagelieder aus dem Flusse herauf tönen hören, oder sie klagend auf dem Burgwalle bei Gülzow umherwandeln sehen.“

  Thompson F420.1.5.2 im Katalog, öffnet in neuem Tab