Marvels

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• Man shoots into wreath of mist and brings down fairy. She becomes his wife. F302.4.1
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her wings (clothes). She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2
• Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her clothes. She leaves when she finds them. F302.4.2.1
• Hero fights with fairy person, takes his wife and keeps her (for a year). F302.4.3
• Man binds fairy and forces her to marry him. F302.4.4
• Fairy mistress and mortal wife. F302.5
• Man deserts wife for fairy. F302.5.0.1
• Fairy mistress surrenders man to his mortal wife (Wildfrau). F302.5.1
• Bonga girl (fairy) surrenders man to his mortal wife if he will name first daughter after her. F302.5.1.1
• Fairy mistress transforms man's human wife. (Cf. F302.3.2.2.) F302.5.2
• Divine damsel converts mortal's first wife into a lovely woman; they all live together. F302.5.2.1
• Man loses luck when he leaves fairy wife for mortal. F302.5.3
• Fairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife away. F302.5.4
• Fairy mistress tries to destroy mortal's wife (mother) by sending her a magic belt. F302.5.5
• Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu. F302.6
• Celtic fairy mistress dominant. F302.6.1
• Recovery of fairy mistress. F302.6.2
• Mortal beats drum as fairies dance before Indra; is granted fairy wife permanently. F302.6.2.1
• Fairy gives up her fairy nature and becomes mortal to be able to return to her mortal husband. F302.6.2.2
• Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. F302.7
• Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings. F302.8
• Fairy mistress rescues hero from battle. F302.9
• Man to have fairy wife for only seven years. F302.10
• Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). F302.11
• Wedding of mortal and fairy. F303
• Purification in kettle of boiling oil as preparation for marriage to fairy. F303.1
• Sexual relations with fairy. F304
• Fairy king punishes ravisher of his daughter. F304.1
• Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. F304.2
• Beautiful woman found in bed with man after he has plugged keyholes to keep elves out. F304.3
• Mortal violates fairy woman. F304.4
• Fairy ravished by mortal strikes flesh from his ear. F304.4.1
• Mortal chooses to sleep with fairy as boon for saving her life. F304.5
• Fée carried off by mortal. F304.6
• Offspring of fairy and mortal. F305
• Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.) F305.1
• Fairy mother bestows magic powers upon half-mortal son. F305.1.1
• Offspring of fairy and mortal extraordinarily beautiful. F305.2
• Right half of son resembles mortal father; left half, fairy father. F305.2.1
• Offspring of fairy and mortal has long hair and beard at birth. F305.3
• Fairies and human children. F310
• Fairies adopt human child. F311
• Fairy godmother. Attendant good fairy. F311.1
• Fairy godmother helps girl escape. F311.1.1
• Fairy foster-father. Guardian to mortal. F311.2
• Man killed on night when fairy guardian relaxes vigilance. F311.2.1
• Fairy foster-mother. (Cf. P270.) F311.3
• Water fairy as foster-mother. F311.3.1
• Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. F312
• Fairies bestow supernatural gifts at birth of a child. F312.1
• Fairies make good wishes for newborn child. (Cf. F316.) F312.1.1
• Fairies control destinies of a mortal. F312.2
• Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child. F312.3
• Fairies comb children's hair. F313
• Fairy predicts birth of child. F315
• Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.) F316
• Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment. F316.1
• Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased. F316.2
• Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. F317
• Fairies carry people away to fairyland. F320
• Fairy steals child from cradle. F321
• Child sold to fairies. F321.0.1
• Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. F321.1
• Changeling deceived into betraying his age. F321.1.1
• Changeling betrays his age when his wonder is excited. Usually pottage is boiled in an eggshell. The changeling: "I shall soon be a hundred years old but I never saw this done before!" F321.1.1.1
• Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity. F321.1.1.2
• Changeling dances wild dance to music, betrays maturity. F321.1.1.2.1
• Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity. F321.1.1.3
• Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity. F321.1.1.4
• Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times." F321.1.1.5
• Threat to throw on fire causes changeling to cry out and betray his nature. F321.1.1.6
• Whipping causes changeling to betray his nature. F321.1.1.7
• Characteristics of changeling. F321.1.2
• Changeling has abnormal features or growth. Limbs grow too rapidly, head is too big, or he is slow to learn to walk, or the like. F321.1.2.1
• Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. F321.1.2.2
• Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for). F321.1.2.3
• Exorcising a changeling. F321.1.3
• Disposing of a changeling. F321.1.4
• Changeling thrown into water and thus banished. F321.1.4.1
• Changeling thrown into ravine and thus banished. F321.1.4.2
• Changeling thrown on fire and thus banished. (Cf. F321.1.4.5.) F321.1.4.3
• Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banished. F321.1.4.4
• When changeling is threatened with burning, child is returned. (Cf. F321.1.4.3.) F321.1.4.5
• Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. F321.1.4.6
• Mortal mother pays no attention to changeling; the mortal child is returned. F321.1.4.7
• Mother treats changeling so well that her own child is returned. F321.1.4.8
• Changeling made to believe that his house is burning up; he leaves. F321.1.4.9
• Water fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies. F321.1.5
• Charms against theft of children by fairies. F321.2
• Man goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.) F321.3
• Unbaptized child stolen by fairies found in barn and rescued. F321.3.1
• Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairies. F321.4
• Fairies appear in house and offer to dance with child. F321.5
• Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairyland. F322
• Woman carried off by water-fairy. F322.0.1
• Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute. F322.1
• Fairy borrows comb from Christian maid to comb hair of changeling bride. (Cf. F324.1.) F322.1.1
• Man rescues his wife from fairyland. (Cf. F321.3.) F322.2
• Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her children. F322.3
• Abducted bride hidden in fairyland. F322.4
• Rescue from fairyland. F322.5
• Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland. F323
• Girl abducted by fairy. F324
• Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.) F324.1
• Woman beset by elves (or phantoms) drowns self. F324.2
• Youth abducted by fairy. F324.3
• Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years. F325.1
• Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother. F326
• Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. F327
• Fairies entice people into their domain. F328
• Other fairy abductions. F329
• Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer). F329.1
• Fairies abduct young woman, return her when fight starts over her. F329.2
• Fairies take persons up in air in chariots for a fortnight or a month. The lost are finally found in fields bereft of sense and with one of the members missing. F329.3
• Fairies who stay with mortals. F329.4
• Lost fairy child found by mortals. Mortals feed, warm it, keep it until one day it hears voice calling: "Coleman Grey!" It leaves with the remark "Ho! ho! ho! My Daddy's come!" F329.4.1
• Fairy child found and cared for, but it pines away. F329.4.2
• Fairy captured by mortal escapes. F329.4.3
• Grateful fairies. F330
• Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their sport. F331
• Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their dance. F331.1
• Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by letting them cut his hair and shave him. F331.2
• Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their song and completing it by adding the names of the days of the week. F331.3
• Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by playing for their dance. F331.4
• Fairy grateful for hospitality. F332
• Fairy grateful to mortal for daily food. F332.0.1
• Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.) F333
• Fairy grateful to mortal for healing. F334
• Fairy grateful for loan. F335
• Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) F335.1
• Fairies loyal to mortal who owns their knoll. F336
• Fairy grateful to mortal for saving his life. (Cf. F304.5.) F337
• Fairy grateful to mortal for saving children's life. F337.1
• Fairies grateful to man who repairs their utensils or implements. F338
• Other grateful fairies. F339
• Fairy grateful for rides on man's back, warns him his cow is choking. F339.1
• Fairies care for tulip bed out of gratitude to owner for not plucking any of blossoms. F339.2
• Fairy grateful for returning lost fairy child. F339.3
• Fairies do all house and farm work for family who returns lost child. F339.3.1
• Fairies cause all ewes to have two lambs for owner who has returned fairy child. F339.3.2
• Gifts from fairies. F340
• Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess. F340.1
• Fairies give fulfillment of wishes. F341
• Fairies give three gifts. F341.1
• Fairy ransoms self with wish. F341.2
• Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. F341.2.1
• Fairies give mortal money. F342
• Fairy gold. Fairies give coals (wood, earth) that turns to gold. F342.1
• Man borrows money from fairy (dwarf, devil). When the man brings the money back, he learns that the fairy was killed by thunder. He keeps the money. F342.2
• Other presents from fairies. F343
• Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) F343.0.1
• Fairies give woman silver spoons. F343.1
• Fairies give hunter a dog. F343.2
• Dogs as gifts from fairy. F343.2.1
• Fairy smith gives knight a magic sword. F343.3
• Fairies give avaricious man gift of benevolence. F343.4
• Fairies give beautiful clothes. F343.5
• Fairy gives magic cloak (and shirt). F343.5.1
• Bonga lends dishes to mortals. F343.6
• Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. F343.7
• Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. F343.8
• Fairy gives man horses, cattle, etc. F343.9
• Horses as fairy gifts. F343.9.1
• Fairy gives warrior equipment for soldiers. F343.10
• Fairy gives person magic sword. F343.10.1
• Fairy gives person magic spear. F343.10.2
• Fairy gives person invulnerable shield. F343.10.3
• Fairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battle. F343.11
• Grateful fairy gives ring. F343.12
• Fairy gives mortals a child. F343.13
• Golden cup (bowl, urn) as gifts from otherworld inhabitants. F343.14
• Magic apple as fairy gift. F343.15
• Gigantic ox rib as gift from fairies. F343.16
• Gigantic hog rib as gift from fairies. F343.16.1
• Fairies give haymakers dinner each year until one of men keeps a fairy knife. They give no more food even though the man returns the knife. (Cf. F353.) F343.17
• Fairies return hatchet head lost in river. F343.18
• Fairies give mortals fairy bread. F343.19
• Fairy bread must be eaten same day it is given or it turns to toadstools. F343.19.1
• Sack of coals as fairy gift. F343.20
• Fairies heal mortals. F344
• Fairies remove hunchback's hump (or replace it). F344.1
• Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. F344.2
• Fairies give man white powder to cure mortals, replenish his supply whenever needed. F344.3
• Fairies instructs mortals. F345
• Fairies teach mortal to walk under water. F345.1
• Supernatural person (poet) reveals marital infidelity. F345.2
• Fairy helps mortal with labor. F346
• Fairy serves mortal. F346.0.1
• Fairies make shoes for shoemaker. F346.1
• Fairies build house for mortal. F346.2
• Fairy adviser. F347
• Bonga made village headman and advice asked. F347.1
• Tabus connected with fairy gifts. F348
• Fairy gift disappears or is turned to something worthless when tabu is broken. F348.0.1
• Fairy gift not to be taken to earth. F348.1
• Cup given by fairy not to be broken. Bad luck will follow (Luck of Edenhall). F348.2
• Fairy gift not to leave possession of mortal's family. Bad luck will follow. F348.3
• Gifts of gold and silver not to be accepted from fairies. F348.4
• Mortal not to recognize fairy who gives him gift. F348.5
• Mortal not to betray secret of fairies' gift. F348.5.1