μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
  • FrenchSaintyves Perrault 72ff.
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone Introduction
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Type 503
  • general BP III 324
  • general Hdwb. d. Märch. s. v. "Elbengeschenke", "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"
Within the index
10 finer motifs beneath it
Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princessFairies give fulfillment of wishesFairies give mortal moneyOther presents from fairiesFairies heal mortalsFairies instructs mortalsFairy helps mortal with laborFairy adviserTabus connected with fairy giftsGifts from fairies – miscellaneous
Travels with
Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.)

wander