Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!"

Motif

Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!"

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F321.1.1.1

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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.

LithuanianBalys Legends No. 525.
general *BP I 368
general Hartland Science 113–116
general E. H. Meyer Germanische Myth. 79

Within the index

Filed under Changeling deceived into betraying his age.

Filed beside it

Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times."Threat to throw on fire causes changeling to cry out and betray his nature Whipping causes changeling to betray his nature

Travels with

Invisible dwarfs at christening feast made to speak by brewing beer in egg-shell. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F481.4.)Brewing in eggshell to drive away cobold. (Cf. F321.1.1.1, F451.5.17.1.)

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