Fairies dance — Mythoi

Motif

Fairies dance.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Behavior of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F261

Filed across the traditions

Scotch Macdougall and Calder 127, 163
Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 24ff., (1928) 16ff.
Slavic Máchal 259
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "dance"
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 503
general *BP III 324ff., 329
general *Fb "danse" IV 93a
general Hartland Science 162. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Behavior of fairies.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy rings on grass. Seen after fairy dance Fairy dances in snow: no tracks left. (Cf. F255.5.) Other locations of fairy dancing

Filed beside it

Fairies make music Fairies feast Fairy wedding Fairy bathes Fairies warm themselves Fairies attend games Burial among underworld folk Fairies as laborers Fairy shows remarkable skill Fairy physician Fairies descend chimney Fairies call out to mortals Battle of fairies and gods Fairies' strategy Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc Fairies travel through air

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