Fairy must leave at cockcrow

Motif

Fairy must leave at cockcrow.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F383.4

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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.

ScotchMacdougall and Calder 229.
general Type 503
general Hartland Science 145

Within the index

Filed under Fairy rendered powerless.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Fairy prince becomes mortal when surprised by daylight Fairies leave at rise of morning star Sunlight fatal to fairies

Filed beside it

Fairy unable to pass cross-roads Fairy unable to cross running stream Fairy unable to cross plowed ground Transformed fairy warriors disenchanted when attacked

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