Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: using fairy bath water, soap, or ointment on oneself while bathing fairy child. (Cf. F235.4.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Visit to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F378.6

Filed across the traditions

England Baughman.

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: touching ground on return from fairyland 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Fairies made visible through use of magic object

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