Fairies fear the cross

Motif

Fairies fear the cross.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F382.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.
general England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman

Within the index

Filed under Exorcising fairies. Fairies disappear when some name or ceremony of the Christian Church is used.

Filed beside it

Holy water breaks fairy spell. (Cf. G303.16.7.)Use of God's name nullifies fairies' power. (Cf. D1766.7, G303.16.8.)Opening Holy Bible in presence of fairies nullifies their spells Chanting song of St. Nicholas drives fairy away Asking grace at fairy banquet causes fairies and banquet to disappear. (Cf. G271.2.3.)

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