Woman carried off by water-fairy

Motif

Woman carried off by water-fairy.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F322.0.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

GermanErk-Böhme Deutsche Liederhort No. 2
LithuanianBalys Index No. *4250.
general Hartland Science 65

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Filed under Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairyland.

Filed beside it

Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute Man rescues his wife from fairyland. (Cf. F321.3.)Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her children Abducted bride hidden in fairyland Rescue from fairyland

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