Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour

Motif

Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Marriage or liaison with fairy. · view the constellation · filed as F302.3.2

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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
EnglishChild I 314, 375f., 384, III 504a, V 214
Spanish ExemplaKeller.

Within the index

Filed under Fairy wooes mortal man.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.)

Filed beside it

Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress Raja refuses to marry a Peri Fairy entices man into fairyland Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love Fairies entice men and then harm them

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