Fairies skillful as smiths

Motif

Fairies skillful as smiths.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Behavior of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F271.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
general *Fb "smed" III 402a
general England, Scotland, Ireland: Baughman, Boberg DF XLVI 83.

Within the index

Filed under Fairies as laborers.

Filed beside it

Fairies as craftsmen Fairies lacking axes work with their teeth Fairies milk cows Fairies as builders Fairies work on cloth Fairies clear land Fairy as herdsman Fairies churn Fées engage in needlework Fairies wash their clothes: they are heard only at this task Fairies bake bread

Travels with

Skillful smith. (Cf. F271.3.)

wander