Fairies take human midwife to attend fairy woman. (Cf. F333.)
Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Visit to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F372.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Scottish J. G. Campbell Superstitions 147
- Icelandic Göngu Hrólfs saga 275ff.
- Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 44 No. 41
- Danish Feilberg DF V 69ff., Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.
- Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "sage-femme", "fées"
- India Thompson-Balys
- Japanese Ikeda.
- 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Carried in tale types
- Midwife in the Underworld · ATU 476** 1 recorded variant
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