μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • U.S.Baughman.
  • general Hartland Science 130, 142
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Fairy borrows comb from Christian maid to comb hair of changeling bride. (Cf. F324.1.)
Filed beside it
Woman carried off by water-fairyMan rescues his wife from fairyland. (Cf. F321.3.)Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her childrenAbducted bride hidden in fairylandRescue from fairyland

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