Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer)

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Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F329.1

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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.

ScotlandBaughman.

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Filed under Other fairy abductions.

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Fairies abduct young woman, return her when fight starts over her Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing Fairies who stay with mortals

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