Hair burned to summon fairies

Motif

Hair burned to summon fairies.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F398

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Fairies – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Fairies borrow from mortals Fairy transforms self to fly, allows self to be swallowed by woman and reborn as fairy Fairy visits among mortals Mortals help fairies Fairy has power to prevent mortal's approach Mortals place selves under protection of fairies Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women Other fairy motifs

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