Mortal as servant in fairyland

Motif

Mortal as servant in fairyland.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Visit to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F376

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
DanishFeilberg DF V 84ff.
LithuanianBalys Legends No. 440.
general *Hdwb. d. Märch. I 396 s. v. "Dienst bei elbischen Wesen"

Within the index

Filed under Visit to fairyland.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tailor works in fairyland

Filed beside it

Human being reared in fairyland Fairies take human nurse to attend fairy child Mortal abandons world to live in fairyland Longing in fairyland to visit home Mortals as captives in fairyland Supernatural lapse of time in fairyland. Years seem days Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.)Fairy visits – miscellaneous

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