Fairies who stay with mortals — Mythoi

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Fairies who stay with mortals.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F329.4

Cited in the index

general See also F321.1. Changeling.

Within the index

Filed under Other fairy abductions.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Lost fairy child found by mortals. Mortals feed, warm it, keep it until one day it hears voice calling: "Coleman Grey!" It leaves with the remark "Ho! ho! ho! My Daddy's come!" Fairy child found and cared for, but it pines away Fairy captured by mortal escapes

Filed beside it

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

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