μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general **Köhler Der Ursprung der Melusinensage (1895)
  • general *Fränkel Zs. f. Vksk. IV 387
  • general *Fb "menneske" II 577b
  • general see also all references for C31.1.2
  • general Hartland Science 168
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 417
  • general England, Wales: Baughman
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover
Filed beside it
Bonga mistressMan goes to fairyland and marries fairyFairy 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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