μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Fairies carry people away to fairyland.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.)Woman beset by elves (or phantoms) drowns selfYouth abducted by fairy
Filed beside it
Fairy steals child from cradleFairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairylandFairy women take body of dead hero to fairylandFairies 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

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