μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Impoverished fairy seeks fortune among mortals.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F393.3

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
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Filed under Fairy visits among mortals.

Filed beside it
Fairy dissatisfied with fairyland leaves to live among mortals Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.) Fairy appears to mortal each Hallowe'en Otherworld woman appears to mortal in sleep

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