Comparative mythology corpus

Living Creature Mistaken For An Island

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Islamicate Folklore The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 3445-3549 high The captain says the goods belonged to Sindbad of Bagdad, who was believed drowned after passengers landed on a supposed island that was actually an enormous sleeping whale; the whale plunged into the sea when it felt the heat of a kindled fire. record