Fairies make music

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Fairies make music.

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

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

IrishMacCulloch Celtic 165, *Cross
ScotchMacdougall and Calder 163, 209
IcelandicMacCulloch Eddic 225
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Hartland Science 141, 155
general Krappe Balor 88

Within the index

Filed under Behavior of fairies.

10 finer motifs beneath it

Fairies sing 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

Filed beside it

Fairies dance 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

Travels with

Fairy music causes earth to open (burst). (Cf. D1275.1, F262.)

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