μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.
Within the index

Filed under Other presents from fairies.

1 finer motif beneath it
Horses as fairy gifts
Filed beside it
Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.)Fairies give woman silver spoonsFairies give hunter a dogFairy smith gives knight a magic swordFairies give avaricious man gift of benevolenceFairies give beautiful clothesBonga lends dishes to mortalsFairy-wife furnishes provisionsFairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried offFairy gives warrior equipment for soldiersFairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battleGrateful fairy gives ringFairy gives mortals a childGolden cup (bowl, urn) as gifts from otherworld inhabitantsMagic apple as fairy giftGigantic ox rib as gift from fairies

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