μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fairies (elves). See also F420 (Water Spirits), F451 (Dwarfs) and F460 (Mountain Spirits) for many common motifs.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies (elves). · view the constellation · filed as F200

Filed across the traditions
  • Celtic *H. Schreiber Die Feen in Europa (Freiburg i. Br., 1842), *W. Wentz Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Rennes, 1909.)
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 43–45 Nos. 37–40, 41–49, 52–54
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 48ff.
  • Lithuanian *Balys Die Sagen von den litauischen Feen (Die Nachbarn [Göttingen, 1948] I 31–71)
  • Germanic MacCulloch Eddic 219ff.
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 13
  • Armenian Ananikian 83
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 564
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 326, 328
  • N. Am. Indian *Alexander N. Am. 68, 290 n. 36
  • Africa Werner African 261, (Ibo [Nigeria]): Basden 278, (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 141 No. 27.
  • general **Hartland Science
  • general Brueyre RTP II 74ff.
  • general *Wehrhan Die Sage 74
  • general Doudou RTP XVII 425ff.
  • general Feilberg's MS collection of cards in Copenhagen Nos. 632–925, cf. Ellekilde FFC LXXXV 78 s. v. "Elb" (alf)
  • general **Latham The Elizabethan Fairies (New York, 1931)
  • general Puckett MPh XVI (1918) 297ff.
  • general De Vries Nederlandsche Tijdschrift voor Volkskunde XXXVI (1931) 3–30
  • general Fb "underjordiske"
  • general Saintyves Contes de Perrault 18, *19. – Irish myth: Cross
Within the index
3 finer motifs beneath it
Pixies (little people unseen but often audible and occasionally caught) Bongas. Roughly equivalent to fairies. Generally malevolent, but often not Little people from the sky. (Cf. F215.)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Underground spirits. (Cf. F200–F399, Fairies and Elves.)

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