μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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 Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra (whole saga).
  • general *Heltzel Philological Quarterly VIII (1930) 348
Within the index

Filed under Fairy mistress and mortal wife.

1 finer motif beneath it
Bonga girl (fairy) surrenders man to his mortal wife if he will name first daughter after her
Filed beside it
Man deserts wife for fairyFairy mistress transforms man's human wife. (Cf. F302.3.2.2.)Man loses luck when he leaves fairy wife for mortalFairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife awayFairy mistress tries to destroy mortal's wife (mother) by sending her a magic belt

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