μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Fairies make music.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Fairy as harperFairy minstrel's birds sing accompanimentFairy minstrel's music heard far and wideFairy music causes sleepFairy music causes mourningFairy music causes joy (laughter)Fairy music causes weakness
Filed beside it
Fairies singFairies teach bagpipe-playingFairy music compared to music of HeavenFairy music – person listening is without food or sleep for a yearFairy music so potent it would cause wounded men to sleepFairies whistleFairy horns heard by mortalsFairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.)Fairy music – miscellaneous
Travels with
Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.)Fairy minstrel asks admission to heaven as reward for playing for saint. (Cf. F262.3.)

wander