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Fairies take revenge on person who spies on them. Spy uses magic salve on one eye. Fairies tear out the eye.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). · view the constellation · filed as F361.3

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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • WelshRhys Celtic Folklore I 63, 98f., 198, 213, 220–228, 241f., 292
  • EnglishFLJ II 154
  • IcelandicRittershaus 303
  • DanishThiele DF II 202f.
  • GermanMeyer Germanen 182
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3276f.
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 47 No. 388
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Hartland Science 66ff.
  • general Jacob's list s. v. "Fairy salve". Irish: Cross, E. Andrews Ulster Folklore (New York, 1919) 66f.
  • general Färoe: Jiriczek Zs. f. Vksk. II 13 No. 14
  • general Legends Nos. 429, 431, 433, 438ff., 442, 444, 447
Within the index

Filed under Fairy's revenge.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Fairies leave work unfinished when overseen. (Cf. F271.2.1, F271.5.)Fairies chase person who watches them dance
Filed beside it
Fairy takes revenge for being slightedFairy takes revenge for theftFairies take revenge on trespassers on ground they claim as theirsFairies punish girl who pours hot water into their springFairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maidenFairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captiveFairy takes revenge for slaying of his relativesFairies take revenge for being dishonoredFairies take revenge for being teasedFairies threaten watcher of sheepFairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homesFairies take revenge for cheatingFairy punishes servant girl who fails to leave food for himFairies punish mortals who refuse to eat fairy food given themFairies punish person who needs punishing because of his treatment of other mortals. (Cf. F311.1.)Other punishments by fairies
Travels with
Fairies lose power of invisibility if mortals gain knowledge of their secret. (Cf. F361.3.)Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.)Person imitates witch by putting ointment in eye: eye blinded. (Cf. F361.3.)

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