μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general Hartland Science 105, 117ff.
  • general Fb "skifting" III 252b, 253a. Irish myth: Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Changeling thrown into water and thus banishedChangeling thrown into ravine and thus banishedChangeling thrown on fire and thus banished. (Cf. F321.1.4.5.)Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banishedWhen changeling is threatened with burning, child is returned. (Cf. F321.1.4.3.)Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returnedMortal mother pays no attention to changeling; the mortal child is returnedMother treats changeling so well that her own child is returnedChangeling made to believe that his house is burning up; he leaves
Filed beside it
Changeling deceived into betraying his ageCharacteristics of changelingExorcising a changelingWater fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies

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