μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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.

  • ScotchMacdougall and Calder 127, 163
  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 24ff., (1928) 16ff.
  • SlavicMáchal 259
  • BretonSébillot 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 danceFairy dances in snow: no tracks left. (Cf. F255.5.)Other locations of fairy dancing
Filed beside it
Fairies make musicFairies feastFairy weddingFairy bathesFairies warm themselvesFairies attend gamesBurial among underworld folkFairies as laborersFairy shows remarkable skillFairy physicianFairies descend chimneyFairies call out to mortalsBattle of fairies and godsFairies' strategyFairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etcFairies travel through air

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