Abducted bride hidden in fairyland

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Abducted bride hidden in fairyland.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F322.4

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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Icelandic *Boberg.

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

Filed beside it

Woman carried off by water-fairy 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 Rescue from fairyland

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