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
  • JapaneseMitford 243
  • West IndiesFlowers 433.
Within the index

Filed under Fairy wooes mortal man.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Fairy kisses manFairies dance with youth till he dies (or goes insane)Fairy wooes and deserts manFairy takes lover back to fairyland in magic sleepFairies fall in love with prince and charm him into a deathlike sleep
Filed beside it
Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistressRaja refuses to marry a PeriFairy entices man into fairylandFairy offers gifts to man to be her paramourFairy avenges self on man who scorns her love
Travels with
Water-maiden enamors man and draws him under water. (Cf. F302.3.4, G264.)

wander