Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc

Motif

Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies and human children. · view the constellation · filed as F312

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

JapaneseIkeda.
general *Type 410
general BP I 439
general *W. B. McDaniel Conception, Birth and Infancy in Ancient Rome and Modern Italy (Coconut Grove, Florida, 1948). Icelandic: Nornagests þáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, *Boberg

Within the index

Filed under Fairies and human children.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fairies bestow supernatural gifts at birth of a child Fairies control destinies of a mortal Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child

Filed beside it

Fairies adopt human child Fairies comb children's hair Fairy predicts birth of child Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.)Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child

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