Fairy gold. Fairies give coals (wood, earth) that turns to gold

Motif

Fairy gold. Fairies give coals (wood, earth) that turns to gold.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Gifts from fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F342.1

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Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2
Finnish-SwedishWessman 47 No. 388
LithuanianBalys Legends No. 434, Index No. *771, 3648
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 503
general BP I 366, III 324ff.
general Hartland Science 57
general Fb "kul" II 326b, "guld" I 512, "hövlspån" I 762, "jord" II 45b. England: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Fairies give mortal money.

Filed beside it

Man borrows money from fairy (dwarf, devil). When the man brings the money back, he learns that the fairy was killed by thunder. He keeps the money

Travels with

Fairy gifts turn to paper when shown. (Cf. F342.1, F348.0.1.)

Carried in tale types

The Gifts of the Little People · ATU 5032 recorded variants
Coal Turns into Gold · ATU 4761 recorded variant

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