μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Hjálmthèrs saga ok Ölvis 477, Boberg
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 56 No. 483
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 44 Nos 42, 43
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Indonesia De Vries's list No. 151
  • Hawaii Beckwith 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 mistress Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy Man marries fairy and takes her to his home Fairy wooes mortal man 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)
Filed beside it
Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man Husband pursues fairy wife to heaven Fairy lover Wedding of mortal and fairy Sexual relations with fairy Offspring of fairy and mortal
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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