Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute

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Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F322.1

Filed across the traditions

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-fairy 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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