μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 35
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Hartland Science 98–106 passim
Within the index

Filed under Fairies carry people away to fairyland.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Child sold to fairiesChangeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a childCharms against theft of children by fairiesMan goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.)Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairiesFairies appear in house and offer to dance with child
Filed beside it
Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairylandFairy women take body of dead hero to fairylandGirl abducted by fairyFairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 yearsFairy father carries off child of mortal motherFamily carried away to fairyland as part of bargainFairies entice people into their domainOther fairy abductions

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