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

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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
Icelandic*Boberg
EnglandBaughman
ScotchCampbell Tales II 74
Finnish-SwedishWessman 50 No. 416.
general Hartland Science 107, 127, 130, 138f., 166
general Fb "Kristen" II 300, "døbe" I 227, "messevin" II 582, "trold" III 852a

Within the index

Filed under Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies.

6 finer motifs beneath it

Fairies fear the cross 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.)

Filed beside it

Getting rid of fairies Fairy rendered powerless Magic objects powerful against fairies Means of averting fairy spells Fairy punished Fairy captured Fairies depart Fairies otherwise defeated

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Trolls flee before Christianity. (Cf. F382)

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