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Motif

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Welsh Rhys Celtic Folklore I 63, 98f., 198, 213, 220–228, 241f., 292
  • English FLJ II 154
  • Icelandic Rittershaus 303
  • Danish Thiele DF II 202f.
  • German Meyer Germanen 182
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 3276f.
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 47 No. 388
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2
  • India Thompson-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 slighted Fairy takes revenge for theft Fairies take revenge on trespassers on ground they claim as theirs Fairies punish girl who pours hot water into their spring Fairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maiden Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives Fairies take revenge for being dishonored Fairies take revenge for being teased Fairies threaten watcher of sheep Fairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homes Fairies take revenge for cheating Fairy punishes servant girl who fails to leave food for him Fairies punish mortals who refuse to eat fairy food given them Fairies punish person who needs punishing because of his treatment of other mortals. (Cf. F311.1.) Other punishments by fairies
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
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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