μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.
Within the index

Filed under Fairies – miscellaneous motifs.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Fairy dissatisfied with fairyland leaves to live among mortalsFairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.)Fairy appears to mortal each Hallowe'enImpoverished fairy seeks fortune among mortalsOtherworld woman appears to mortal in sleep
Filed beside it
Fairies borrow from mortalsFairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairyMortals help fairiesFairy has power to prevent mortal's approachMortals place selves under protection of fairiesFairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of womenHair burned to summon fairiesOther fairy motifs

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