μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman.

6 finer motifs beneath 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 loveFairies entice men and then harm them
Filed beside it
Bonga mistressMan goes to fairyland and marries fairyMan marries fairy and takes her to his homeMan obtains power over fairy mistressFairy mistress and mortal wifeFairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabuFairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battleFairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachingsFairy mistress rescues hero from battleMan to have fairy wife for only seven yearsPrince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies)

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