Fairy entices man into fairyland

Motif

Fairy entices man into fairyland.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Marriage or liaison with fairy. · view the constellation · filed as F302.3.1

Filed across the traditions

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 her Fairies stop ship to entice man to their land Man is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries her Fairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.)

Filed beside it

Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress Raja refuses to marry a Peri Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love Fairies entice men and then harm them

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