μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • ScottishJ. G. Campbell Superstitions 147
  • IcelandicGöngu Hrólfs saga 275ff.
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 44 No. 41
  • DanishFeilberg DF V 69ff., Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "sage-femme", "fées"
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Hartland Science 37–92
  • general *Fb "jordemoder"
  • general *BP I 367
  • general Wentz Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (London, 1911) 49f., 54, 131, 140, 175, 182
  • general Tobler 76. – English: Child I 358ff. No. 40, II 505f., III 505f., IV 459a, V 215b, 290b
  • general England, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Fairies take human nurse to attend fairy child.

Filed beside it
Fairies seek human godparent
Travels with
Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.)Water-spirit calls human midwife. (Cf. F372.1, F451.3.5.5, F451.5.5.)
Carried in tale types

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