μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • ScotlandMacdougall and Calder 267, Baughman
  • EnglandWells 128 (Sir Orfeo).
  • general *Krappe Études 131 n. 2
  • general Hartland Science 133
  • general *Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII 94ff.
  • general *Cross and Hitze Lancelot and Guenevere 31ff.
Within the index

Filed under Fairies carry people away to fairyland.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Woman carried off by water-fairyChangeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substituteMan 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
Filed beside it
Fairy steals child from cradleFairy 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
Travels with
Trolls carry off people. (Cf. F320, F322.)

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