Fairies carry people away to fairyland

Motif

Fairies carry people away to fairyland.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F320

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseIkeda.
general *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "døbe" I 227
general Hartland Science 163ff.
general Feilberg DF V 55ff. Irish myth: *Cross
general H. Hartmann Ueber Krankheit, Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen in Irland (Erster Teil: Krankheit und Fairyentrückung, Halle, 1942)

Within the index

9 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy steals child from cradle Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairyland Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland Girl abducted by fairy Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain Fairies entice people into their domain Other fairy abductions

Travels with

Fairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.)Trolls carry off people. (Cf. F320, F322.)

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