μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 22references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Celtic*H. Schreiber Die Feen in Europa (Freiburg i. Br., 1842), *W. Wentz Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (Rennes, 1909.)
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 43–45 Nos. 37–40, 41–49, 52–54
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 48ff.
  • Lithuanian*Balys Die Sagen von den litauischen Feen (Die Nachbarn [Göttingen, 1948] I 31–71)
  • GermanicMacCulloch Eddic 219ff.
  • French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 13
  • ArmenianAnanikian 83
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 564
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 326, 328
  • N. Am. Indian*Alexander N. Am. 68, 290 n. 36
  • AfricaWerner 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 notLittle people from the sky. (Cf. F215.)
Travels with
Underground spirits. (Cf. F200–F399, Fairies and Elves.)

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