μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • EnglishWells 130ff. (Sir Launfal, Emare)
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairylandMortal gives fairy ring after night spent with her in fairyland
Filed beside it
Bonga mistressMan marries fairy and takes her to his homeFairy wooes mortal manMan obtains power over fairy mistressFairy mistress and mortal wifeFairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabuFairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battleFairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachingsFairy mistress rescues hero from battleMan to have fairy wife for only seven yearsPrince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies)

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