μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Hartland Science 41, 163, 184, 202
Within the index

Filed under Fairy wooes mortal man.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Bonga girl (fairy) will return stolen goods only if mortal man will go with herFairies stop ship to entice man to their landMan is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries herFairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.)
Filed beside it
Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistressRaja refuses to marry a PeriFairy offers gifts to man to be her paramourFairy avenges self on man who scorns her loveFairies entice men and then harm them

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