Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.)

Motif

Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Grateful fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F333

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Hartland Science 55f.
general Scotland, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman.

Within the index

Filed under Grateful fairies.

Filed beside it

Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their sport Fairy grateful for hospitality Fairy grateful to mortal for healing Fairy grateful for loan Fairies loyal to mortal who owns their knoll Fairy grateful to mortal for saving his life. (Cf. F304.5.)Fairies grateful to man who repairs their utensils or implements Other grateful fairies

Travels with

Fairies take human midwife to attend fairy woman. (Cf. F333.)

Carried in tale types

Midwife in the Underworld · ATU 476**1 recorded variant

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