Fairies sing — Mythoi

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Fairies sing.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Behavior of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F262.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
England Baughman
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "chant", "chanteuse".
general *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "synge" III 706b

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Filed under Fairies make music.

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Fairies teach bagpipe-playing Fairy minstrel Fairy music compared to music of Heaven Fairy music – person listening is without food or sleep for a year Fairy music so potent it would cause wounded men to sleep Fairies whistle Fairy horns heard by mortals Fairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.) Fairy music – miscellaneous

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