Magic objects powerful against fairies

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Magic objects powerful against fairies.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies. · view the constellation · filed as F384

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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.

EnglandBaughman
IrishBeal XXI 324.

Within the index

Filed under Defeating or ridding oneself of fairies.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Salt powerful against fairies Steel powerful against fairies Iron powerful against fairies Wearing flowers on one's ears protects from fairies

Filed beside it

Getting rid of fairies Exorcising fairies. Fairies disappear when some name or ceremony of the Christian Church is used Fairy rendered powerless Means of averting fairy spells Fairy punished Fairy captured Fairies depart Fairies otherwise defeated

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