Fairies entice men and then harm them

Motif

Fairies entice men and then harm them.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Marriage or liaison with fairy. · view the constellation · filed as F302.3.4

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Japanese Mitford 243
West Indies Flowers 433.

Within the index

Filed under Fairy wooes mortal man.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy kisses man Fairies dance with youth till he dies (or goes insane) Fairy wooes and deserts man Fairy takes lover back to fairyland in magic sleep Fairies fall in love with prince and charm him into a deathlike sleep

Filed beside it

Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress Raja refuses to marry a Peri Fairy entices man into fairyland Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Water-maiden enamors man and draws him under water. (Cf. F302.3.4, G264.)

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