Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland

Motif

Tabu: touching ground on return from fairyland.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Visit to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F378.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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
EnglandBaughman.
general Hartland Science 164f.

Within the index

Filed under Tabus connected with trip to fairyland. (Cf. F348.5, F361.3.)

Filed beside it

Mortal expelled from fairyland for breaking tabu Tabu: bathing or touching water in lake in fairyland Mortal visiting in fairyland must keep his thought on the fairies Tabu: drinking from certain well in fairyland. Person does, finds himself alone on hillside. (Cf. C260.)Tabu: plucking flowers from bed tended by fairies Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.)

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