Fairy minstrel — Mythoi

Motif

Fairy minstrel.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Behavior of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F262.3

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Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Fairies make music.

7 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy as harper Fairy minstrel's birds sing accompaniment Fairy minstrel's music heard far and wide Fairy music causes sleep Fairy music causes mourning Fairy music causes joy (laughter) Fairy music causes weakness

Filed beside it

Fairies sing Fairies teach bagpipe-playing 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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.)

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