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Dwarf loves mortal girl. (Cf. F420.6.1. and cross references F451.5.15.3.)

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Spirits and demons. · Underground spirits. · view the constellation · filed as F451.5.18

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic MacCulloch Eddic 270, 272, Boberg
  • German Haas Greifswald. 36 No. 39, 38 No. 44.
  • general Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 322 No. 86
Within the index

Filed under Dwarfs and human beings.

1 finer motif beneath it
Dwarf promises money and property to mortal father for hand of daughter
Filed beside it
Helpful dwarfs Malevolent dwarf Dwarfs are ancestors of mortals Mortal goes to land of dwarfs Dwarfs have human woman as midwife Dwarfs have mortal god-parent. (Cf. F420.5.3.3.) Dwarfs visit mortal's home Dwarfs associate with mortals Dwarfs and Christianity. (Cf. F420.5.3.4. and cross-references there given. Cf. also F451.9.1.6.) Business relations of dwarfs and mortals Dwarfs suffer abuses by mortals Dwarfs thwart efforts of mortals to get additional favors Dwarfs exact promise from mortals Dwarfs tease mortals Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals Dwarfs dislike human vices
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Marriage or liaison of mortals and water-spirits Water-man woos mortal girl. (Cf. F451.5.18.) Water-maiden is wooed by dwarf. (Cf. F451.5.18.)

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