Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.)

Motif

Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies and human children. · view the constellation · filed as F316

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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.

IcelandicNornagests þáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Boberg.
general *Type 410

Within the index

Filed under Fairies and human children.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased

Filed beside it

Fairies adopt human child Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc Fairies comb children's hair Fairy predicts birth of child Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child

Travels with

Fairies make good wishes for newborn child. (Cf. F316.)

Carried in tale types

Sleeping Beauty (Dornr'schen, La bella addormentata · ATU 4108 recorded variants

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