Mortal as servant in fairyland — Mythoi

Motif

Mortal as servant in fairyland.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Danish Feilberg DF V 84ff.
Lithuanian Balys 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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