μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Malone PMLA XLIII 433
  • general *Krappe Études 119ff.
Within the index

Filed under Marriage or liaison with fairy.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.)Offspring of fairy and mortal extraordinarily beautifulOffspring of fairy and mortal has long hair and beard at birth
Filed beside it
Giants guard fairy princess from mortal manHusband pursues fairy wife to heavenFairy loverFairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy womanWedding of mortal and fairySexual relations with fairy

wander