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• Hell confused with fairy land. A671.0.4
• Lake bursts forth to quell fairy war. A920.1.7.1
• Spring breaks forth where fairy horse lies down. A941.1.2
• Flood caused by loosing fairy horse and allowing it to stale. A1012.2.1
• First man descends on earth, falls in love with and marries a fairy. A1275.9
• Origin of a king's family from a fairy prince. A1653.2
• Magic bitches (in human form) enchanted by fairy music. B182.1.7
• Transportation to fairyland on griffin's back. B542.2.1
• Tabu: offending fairy. C46
• Tabu: breaking promise to fairy: death on twelfth day. C46.1
• Tabu: fairy girl marrying mortal. C162.1.1
• Tabu: eating in fairyland. C211.1
• Silence preserved in fairyland. C405
• Woman (fairy) causes twofold death of mortal husband who utters her name. C435.1.1.1
• Tabu: digging in fairy ring. C523.2
• Tabu: picking up comb from ground. It belongs to fairy (witch) who will avenge insult. C543
• The one forbidden thing: returning to home country after marrying fairy. C644
• Tabu: staying too long in fairyland. (Cf. C713.3.) C712.1
• Forsaken merman. Tabu: association of fairy's (merman's, etc.) human wife (husband) with human relatives. C713
• Tabu: speaking in fairyland. C715.1
• Tabu imposed by fairy. C901.1.5
• Weakness from seeing woman (fairy) naked. C942.3
• Fairy transforms herself into a monstrous being with head of an ape, thin legs, sharp claws, fish scales and bristles. D49.3
• Transformation: woman (fairy) to fly. D185.1.1
• Transformation: pig-fairy to fish. D412.3.1
• Transformation by touching ground on return from fairyland. D565.0.1
• Power of self-transformation received from fairy parent. D630.3
• Transformation to lure hunters to certain place. Usually fairyland. D659.10
• Transformation by fairy. D683.7
• Transformation by offspring of fairy and mortal. D683.7.1
• Magic object received from fairy. D813
• Magic object received from grateful fairy. Hero has cured sick fairy by making her laugh. D813.2
• Prince procures magic object from bathing fairy when he steals her clothes. D838.10
• Fairy dun acquired by tricking owner. D839.2
• Magic tree springs from fairyland berry. D951.1
• Grief dispelled by sound of bell attached to magic fairy dog. D1359.3.1.3
• Magic sword protects woman from fairy lover in husband's absence. (Cf. D1081, F301.) D1386.1
• Magic object summons fairy. D1421.6
• Magic flute summons fairy. (Cf. D1223.1.) D1421.6.1
• Fairy music causes earth to open (burst). (Cf. D1275.1, F262.) D1555.4
• Fairy as magician. (Cf. F234.0.2.) D1711.5
• Contest between druid and fairy personage. D1719.1.2
• Magic power of fairy. (Cf. A1611.10.1.) D1719.5
• Magic power from fairy. D1723
• Fairy seen in dream. (Cf. F471.2, K2035.) D1731.2.1
• Thumb of knowledge from catching thumb in door of fairy. (Cf. F211.1.) D1811.1.1.1
• Power of prophecy from fairy. (Cf. D1723.) D1812.1.1
• Fairy music as evil omen. D1812.5.1.13
• Fairy has knowledge of how mortals fare. (Cf. D1810.0.4.) D1813.0.2
• Magic weakness as result of fairy's (goddess's) curse. (Cf. D1837.1.1.) D1837.3
• Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle. D1857.2
• Magic beautification of fairy. (Cf. D732, F234.) D1860.0.1
• Rejuvenation by fairy. D1882.2
• Invisibility conferred by fairy. (Cf. D1723.) D1983.2
• Fairy gains entrance to locked city. D2088.1
• Fairy wounded by mortal is healed only by obtaining mortal's blessing. (Cf. D659.5.) D2161.4.10.2.1
• Fairy personage (god?) houses mistress in crystal bower. (Cf. F165.3.5.1.) D2185.1
• Resuscitation by fairy. E121.8
• Fairy converses with dead. E545.8
• Departure to otherworld (fairyland) attributed to death. F6
• Fairyland (Ireland) inhabited (settled) by women only. F112.0.1
• Fairy otherworld confused with land of the dead. (Cf. A671.0.4.) F160.0.2
• Otherworld (fairyland) as place of sorrowful captivity. F165.6.1
• Hero fights in otherworld and overcomes king (queen), or fairy. F176
• Hero fights giants who ruin fairyland. F176.1
• Fairyland. F210
• Tabu: fighting battle in fairyland. F210.1
• Fairyland under hollow knoll. Usually entered under roots of trees. F211
• Contrast between people of the fairy mounds and inhabitants of the Land of Promise. F211.0.2
• Entrance to fairyland through door in knoll. F211.1
• Door to fairyland opens once a year. F211.1.1
• Fairyland entrance under stone. F211.2
• Fairyland under water. F212
• Fairyland entered through well. F212.1
• Fairyland on island. F213
• Magic boat to fairyland. F213.1
• Sea-riding horse carries mortals to fairyland. F213.3
• Fairyland in sky. F215.1
• Fairy lights seen in low places. F217.1
• Garden in fairyland. F219.2
• House of fairy. F221
• Fairy house disappears at dawn. F221.1
• Fairy family lives in neat cottage. F221.4
• Fairy house without doors. F221.5
• Fairy castle. F222
• Fairy stronghold. F222.2
• Fairy castle of glass. F222.3
• Fairy hall. F223
• Fairy lives in a shell. F225
• Fairy's limbs. F231
• Fairy's arms. F231.1
• Fairy's iron arms. F231.1.1
• Fairy's feet. F231.2
• Body of fairy. F232
• Fairy has back rough like pine cone. F232.1.2
• Fairy as a small pretty girl with blond hair. F232.4.1
• Fairy princess with golden hair. F232.4.2
• Fairy has long tail. (Cf. F460.1.5, F518.) F232.8
• Color of fairy. (Cf. F236.) F233
• Green fairy. F233.1