μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Fairy wooes mortal man.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Marriage or liaison with fairy. · view the constellation · filed as F302.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman.

6 finer motifs beneath 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 Fairies entice men and then harm them
Filed beside it
Bonga mistress Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy Man marries fairy and takes her to his home Man obtains power over fairy mistress Fairy mistress and mortal wife Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings Fairy mistress rescues hero from battle Man to have fairy wife for only seven years Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies)

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