Mortal fosters fairy child to prevent destruction of crops — Mythoi

Motif

Mortal fosters fairy child to prevent destruction of crops.

Ordaining the future. · Bargains and promises. · Other bargains. · view the constellation · filed as M242.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Bargains and promises between mortals and supernatural beings. (Cf. M221, M222, M223.)

Filed beside it

Contract between hungry god and untouchable: to give gods food it they will eat from his hands Ogre released in return for his magic girdle

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