Fairies have hollow backs

Motif

Fairies have hollow backs.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Appearance of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F232.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Finnish-Swedish*Wessman 48 Nos. 394, 438.
general *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "ellepige" I 242a
general Elisabeth Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen in der Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936) 38

Within the index

Filed under Body of fairy.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Fairies have huge hole in each armpit Fairy has back rough like pine cone

Filed beside it

Fairies have breasts long enough to throw over their shoulders Fairies with unusually large ears Fairies have long hair Fairies have hairy bodies Fairies as giants Elves have only half a thumb Fairy has long tail. (Cf. F460.1.5, F518.)

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