Entrance to fairyland through door in knoll

Motif

Entrance to fairyland through door in knoll.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F211.1

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Irish myth*Cross
ScotchMacdougall and Calder 133, 283.
general Hartland Science 61
general England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Fairyland under hollow knoll. Usually entered under roots of trees.

1 finer motif beneath it

Door to fairyland opens once a year

Filed beside it

Prehistoric burial mounds as dwellings of fairies Contrast between people of the fairy mounds and inhabitants of the Land of Promise Fairyland entrance under stone Fairies live under earth

Travels with

Thumb of knowledge from catching thumb in door of fairy. (Cf. F211.1.)

wander