Fairies milk mortal's cows dry

Motif

Fairies milk mortal's cows dry.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). · view the constellation · filed as F366.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

EnglandBaughman.
general *Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 484 n. 23
general Fb "ko" II 240b

Within the index

Filed under Fairies abuse livestock.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fairies milk mortal's mare Fairies admit calves to cows, depriving children of milk Fairies ride farmer's calves

Filed beside it

Fairies ride mortal's horses at night Fairies in form of devastating animals kill flocks Fairies control prosperity Fairy hangs on to carriage on road. (Cf. E272.1.)

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