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• Fairies scare treasure-seeker away from hoard. They get bigger and bigger, and cause violent storms until seeker leaves. Cf. D2141.0.2. F244.4
• Fairies dig for treasure. F244.5
• Fairies guard giants' treasures. (Cf. N570.) F244.6
• Fairies' musical instruments. F245
• Fairy harp. F245.1
• Fairy tobacco pipes. F246
• Other characteristics of fairies. F250
• Origin of fairies. F251
• Fairies as descendants of early race of gods. F251.1
• Goddess as fairy. F251.1.1
• Fairies as gods. F251.1.2
• Fairies as souls of departed. (Cf. E700.) F251.2
• Unbaptized children as fairies. F251.3
• Underworld people from children which Eve hid from God. F251.4
• Fairies as sprites who have been given immortality. F251.5
• Fairies as fallen angels. F251.6
• Fairies as demons. F251.7
• Fairy professes faith in Christianity. F251.8
• Fairy gives instructions on means of reaching heaven. F251.9
• Fairies are not the children of Adam. F251.10
• Fairies are people not good enough for heaven but not bad enough for hell. F251.11
• Fairies are druids. F251.12
• Fairies are Welsh women cursed by St. Patrick for rebuking him because he left Wales for Ireland. F251.13
• Fairies are outlaws hiding out. F251.14
• Government of fairies. F252
• Fairy king. F252.1
• Mortal rules fairyland jointly with fairy king. F252.1.0.1
• King of Land under Water. F252.1.0.2
• Fairies elect king. F252.1.1
• Indra has control over fairies. F252.1.2
• Fairy queen. F252.2
• Fairy army. F252.3
• Soldiers of fairy king are trees by day and men by night. F252.3.1
• Fairies banished from fairyland. F252.4
• Fairy banished for adultery. (Cf. F254.5, Q241.) F252.4.1
• Fairy banished for falsehood. F252.4.2
• Extraordinary powers of fairies. F253
• Extraordinary physical powers of fairies. F253.1
• Fairies possess extraordinary strength. F253.1.1
• Fairy as mighty lifter. F253.1.1.1
• Mortal characteristics of fairies. (Cf. F259.1.) F254
• Fairies have physical disabilities. F254.1
• Fairies not omniscient. F254.2
• Fairies can be bewitched. F254.3
• Fairies can be wounded. F254.4
• Fairies commit adultery. (Cf. F252.4.1.) F254.5
• Peculiar limitations of fairies. F255
• Fairies must trade whenever it is demanded of them. It does not matter how uneven the trade may be. F255.1
• Fairies can set down an object once but cannot raise it again. F255.2
• Fairies once seen by mortals no longer invisible at will. F255.3
• Fairy army can go among mortals only on Hallowe'en. F255.4
• Fairies do not bend grass as they walk. (Cf. F261.2, F973.2.) F255.5
• Fairies read men's thoughts. F256
• Mortal's coming to fairyland foreknown to fairies. F256.1
• Tribute taken from fairies by fiend at stated periods. F257
• Fairies gregarious. F258
• Fairies hold a fair. F258.1
• Characteristics of fairies – miscellaneous. F259
• Mortality of fairies. F259.1
• Fairies kill each other. F259.1.1
• Fairy becomes mortal. F259.1.2
• Fairy dies of longing for fairyland. F259.1.3
• Fairies immortal. F259.1.4
• Fairies cannot be slain. F259.1.4.1
• Fairies freed from disgrace by bathing in blood of enemy. F259.2
• Fairy reveals her true identity when despite heavy rain she remains dry. F259.3
• Behavior of fairies. F260
• Fairies dance. F261
• Fairy rings on grass. Seen after fairy dance. F261.1
• Fairies dance by themselves in fairy ring. F261.1.1
• Fairy dances in snow: no tracks left. (Cf. F255.5.) F261.2
• Fairies dance on leaves without disturbing them. F261.2.1
• Other locations of fairy dancing. F261.3
• Fairies dance under tree. F261.3.1
• Fairies dance under hawthorn trees. F261.3.1.1
• Fairies dance under oak tree. F261.3.1.2
• Fairies dance on foxglove. F261.3.2
• Fairies dance in orchard. F261.3.3
• Fairies dance in ditches. F261.3.4
• Fairies dance in hay in barn. F261.3.5
• Fairies dance on the green. F261.3.6
• Fairies dance before Indra. F261.3.7
• Fairies make music. F262
• Fairies sing. F262.1
• Fairies teach bagpipe-playing. F262.2
• Fairy minstrel. F262.3
• Fairy as harper. F262.3.1
• Fairy harper plays two harps at once. F262.3.1.1
• Fairy harper in yew tree. F262.3.1.2
• Fairy harper in tiny bronze boat. F262.3.1.3
• Fairy minstrel's birds sing accompaniment. F262.3.2
• Fairy minstrel's music heard far and wide. F262.3.3
• Fairy music causes sleep. F262.3.4
• Fairy music causes mourning. F262.3.5
• Fairy music causes joy (laughter). F262.3.6
• Fairy music causes weakness. F262.3.7
• Fairy music compared to music of Heaven. F262.4
• Fairy music – person listening is without food or sleep for a year. F262.5
• Fairy music so potent it would cause wounded men to sleep. F262.6
• Fairies whistle. F262.7
• Fairy horns heard by mortals. F262.8
• Fairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.) F262.9
• Fairy music – miscellaneous. F262.10
• Fairy music issues from stone. F262.10.1
• Fairy music issues from fairy ring. F262.10.2
• Fairies feast. F263
• Fairy's share of feast a nut. F263.1
• Fairy wedding. F264
• Fairy bathes. F265
• Fairies frequently use bath house. F265.1
• Fairies warm themselves. F266
• Fairies attend games. F267
• Burial among underworld folk. F268
• Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. F268.1
• Fairies as laborers. F271
• Fairies as craftsmen. F271.0.1
• Fairies lacking axes work with their teeth. F271.0.2
• Fairies milk cows. F271.1
• Fairies as builders. F271.2
• Fairies build great structures in one night. F271.2.0.1
• Fairies excavate passage. F271.2.1
• Fairies build causeway. F271.2.2
• Fairies build canoe. F271.2.3
• Fairies skillful as smiths. F271.3
• Fairies work on cloth. F271.4
• Fairies bleach linen. F271.4.1
• Fairies skillful as weavers. F271.4.2
• Fairies spin. F271.4.3
• Fairies clear land. F271.5
• Fairy as herdsman. F271.6
• Fairies churn. F271.7
• Fées engage in needlework. F271.8
• Fairies wash their clothes: they are heard only at this task. F271.9
• Fairies bake bread. F271.10
• Fairy shows remarkable skill. F273
• Fairy shows remarkable skill as marksman. F273.1
• Fairy shows remarkable skill as runner. F273.2
• Fairy physician. F274
• Fairies descend chimney. F275
• Fairies call out to mortals. F276
• Battle of fairies and gods. F277
• War between fairy settlements. F277.0.1
• Fairies fight among selves for possession of island. F277.0.2
• Good and bad fairies battle. F277.0.3
• Fairies' strategy. F278
• Fairy casts huge stones to keep enemies off. F278.1
• Fairies create magic concealing mist. F278.2
• Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. F281
• Fairies travel through air. F282
• Fairies travel in eddies of wind. F282.1
• Formulas for fairies' travel through air. F282.2
• Fairies come from the kingdom of Indra to earth in four flying thrones. F282.3
• Anchor falls on fairies. F285
• Marriage or liaison with fairy. F300
• Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man. F300.1
• Husband pursues fairy wife to heaven. F300.2
• Fairy lover. F301
• Summoning fairy lover. F301.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by breaking tabu. F301.1.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by wishing for him. F301.1.1.1
• Girl summons fairy lover by plucking flowers. F301.1.1.2
• Girl summons fairy lover by lying under tree. F301.1.1.3
• Girl summons fairy lover by pulling nuts. F301.1.1.4
• Fairy lover entices mortal girl. F301.2
• Elf-knight produces love-longing by blowing on horn. F301.2.1
• Girl goes to fairyland and marries fairy. F301.3
• Tasks set maid by elfin knight before she can marry him. F301.4
• Elf-knight entices maiden away and kills her. F301.5
• Fairy lover abducts fairy wife of mortal. F301.6
• Girl goes to see her fairy lover on certain nights. F301.7
• Fairy runs away from wedding with mortal girl. F301.8
• Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman. F302
• Bonga mistress. F302.0.1
• Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy. F302.1
• Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairyland. F302.1.1
• Mortal gives fairy ring after night spent with her in fairyland. F302.1.2
• Man marries fairy and takes her to his home. F302.2
• Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. F302.2.1
• Fairy wooes mortal man. F302.3
• Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. F302.3.0.1
• Raja refuses to marry a Peri. F302.3.0.2
• Fairy entices man into fairyland. F302.3.1
• Bonga girl (fairy) will return stolen goods only if mortal man will go with her. F302.3.1.1
• Fairies stop ship to entice man to their land. F302.3.1.2
• Man is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries her. F302.3.1.3
• Fairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.) F302.3.1.4
• Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. F302.3.2
• Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. F302.3.2.1
• Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) F302.3.2.2
• Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love. F302.3.3
• Fairy avenges herself on inconstant lover (husband). F302.3.3.1
• Fairies entice men and then harm them. F302.3.4
• Fairy kisses man. F302.3.4.1
• Fairy's kiss fatal. F302.3.4.1.1
• Fairies dance with youth till he dies (or goes insane). F302.3.4.2
• Pixies win dancing contest with man. F302.3.4.2.1
• Fairy wooes and deserts man. F302.3.4.3
• Fairy takes lover back to fairyland in magic sleep. F302.3.4.4
• Fairies fall in love with prince and charm him into a deathlike sleep. F302.3.4.5
• Man obtains power over fairy mistress. F302.4