Girl abducted by fairy

Motif

Girl abducted by fairy.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F324

Filed across the traditions

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 self Youth abducted by fairy

Filed beside it

Fairy steals child from cradle Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairyland Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain Fairies entice people into their domain Other fairy abductions

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