Story map

Mountains, hearth-fire, water, and voices that still move at night. The figures who carry them wait along the paths.

Pinch or ± · touch a figure

Spine · ordered walk

Attested tie

Guide step

Story paths

Storm, house, water, hearth, mountain — cycles under the same sky.

Water spirits

Rivers, lakes, and marshes keep their own voices — comb-maidens, pool hags, marsh bellows in the wet dark.

Tales that touch this path

Same night, other tellings.

The walk

Figure

Floçkë (water maiden)

A lake or river maiden with a comb — a water bride of the bank.

From — Ugly pool hag against the comb-maiden of the bank — two waters, two faces.

Toward — The bank comb-bride is not Tomor’s Sea Beauty — another water name entirely.

Water/bank comb-bride. Tirta 2004:134 entry Ksheta with aliases Nusja Shapulicë, Cuca e Liqenit, Nusja e Ujit, Zana e Ujit — and warns it is NOT Oriental-derived E Bukura e Dheut. Elsie Floçkë/Gërshetëza parks here. Not the same as Tomor. Sea Beauty sister; Not the same as M. ärchen Earthly Beauty.

Tales that touch this stop

Ties

— not the same as
— hag against maiden
— hag against maiden

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