Fairies set fire to buildings

Motif

Fairies set fire to buildings.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). · view the constellation · filed as F369.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Malevolent fairies – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Fairies defile waters Fairy kills mortal's hound (horses)Fairy tricks mortal Fairies destroy crops Fairy prevents butter coming. (Cf. D2084.2.)Fairies lead travelers astray. (Cf. E272.10, F401.3, F491.1.)Elephants become lean from listening too much to fairy music; cannot graze

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