μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • IcelandicHjálmthèrs saga ok Ölvis 477, Boberg
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 56 No. 483
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 44 Nos 42, 43
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • IndonesiaDe Vries's list No. 151
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 500.
  • general *Hoffman-Krayer Zs f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 4
  • general *Puckett MPh XVI 297
  • general Clouston Tales I 212ff.
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 406
  • general *Grimes The Lays of Desiré, Graelent and Melion (New York, 1928)
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIII 97ff. Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Marriage or liaison with fairy.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Bonga mistressMan goes to fairyland and marries fairyMan marries fairy and takes her to his homeFairy wooes mortal manMan 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)
Filed beside it
Giants guard fairy princess from mortal manHusband pursues fairy wife to heavenFairy loverWedding of mortal and fairySexual relations with fairyOffspring of fairy and mortal
Travels with
Punishment for desertion of fairy mistress. (Cf. F302, F361, Q469.11.)Father banishes son at request of fairy wife. (Cf. F302, S322.4.3.)Heroine taunted with her unknown past. (Cf. F302.)
Carried in tale types

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