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- Mortals become gods. A117
- God's spirit dwells among mortals. A151.11
- Gods in relation to mortals. A180
- God reveals himself to mortals. A182
- God reveals secrets (mysteries) to mortals. A182.1
- God controls mortals' sinning. A185.14
- God causes mortals' sin. A185.14.1
- God establishes peace between mortals. A185.15
- Gods in relation to mortals – miscellaneous. A189
- Gods forced by mortals to take refuge underground. A189.13
- Demigods fight as allies of mortals. A536
- Culture hero returns and assists mortals. A581.1
- Mermaid gives mortals gold from sea bottom. B81.13.4
- Magic forest seems to stretch farther as mortals travel within. (Cf. D941.) D1368.5
- Fairy has knowledge of how mortals fare. (Cf. D1810.0.4.) D1813.0.2
- Tear from upper world of mortals falls on departed in lower world. Dead brother sends message of comfort to living. E361.1
- Journey to the Land of the Immortals. F116
- River that cannot be crossed by mortals. F141.1.2
- Summer in otherworld when it is winter in world of mortals. F161.1.1
- Underworld river from blood of sick mortals. F162.2.13
- Mortals held by magic in otherworld. F182
- Sea-riding horse carries mortals to fairyland. F213.3
- Fairies lose power of invisibility if mortals gain knowledge of their secret. (Cf. F361.3.) F235.8.1
- Fairies are the same size as mortals. F239.4.1
- Fairy fetches mortals to remove treasure hidden by ghosts in their lifetimes. (Cf. N510.) F244.3
- Fairies once seen by mortals no longer invisible at will. F255.3
- Fairy army can go among mortals only on Hallowe'en. F255.4
- Fairy horns heard by mortals. F262.8
- Fairies call out to mortals. F276
- Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairyland. F302.1.1
- 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
- Bonga lends dishes to mortals. F343.6
- Fairy gives mortals a child. F343.13
- Fairies give mortals fairy bread. F343.19
- Fairies heal mortals. F344
- Fairies give man white powder to cure mortals, replenish his supply whenever needed. F344.3
- Fairies instructs mortals. F345
- Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive. F361.7
- Fairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homes. F361.12
- Fairies punish mortals who refuse to eat fairy food given them. F361.15
- Fairies punish person who needs punishing because of his treatment of other mortals. (Cf. F311.1.) F361.16
- Fairies tickle mortals to death. F363.6
- War between fairies and mortals. F364
- Fairy warriors sit upon mortals and thus kill them. F364.1
- Fairies wrestle with mortals. F364.2
- Fairy incites mortals to war. F369.4.1
- Mortals as captives in fairyland. F375
- Fairies borrow from mortals. F391
- Fairies borrow food from mortals. F391.2
- Fairy visits among mortals. F393
- Fairy dissatisfied with fairyland leaves to live among mortals. F393.0.1
- Fairy minstrel lives among mortals to learn of their heroic deeds. (Cf. F262.3.) F393.1
- Impoverished fairy seeks fortune among mortals. F393.3
- Mortals help fairies. F394
- Mortals aid fairies in war. F394.2
- Mortals place selves under protection of fairies. F396
- Spirits borrow from mortals at weddings, return goods later. F417.1
- Water-spirits work at night in home of mortals. F420.5.1.6
- Water-spirits give gifts to mortals. (Cf. F342, F451.5.1.5.) F420.5.1.7
- Water-spirits kidnap mortals and keep them under water. F420.5.2.2
- Water-spirits take revenge on mortals. F420.5.2.6
- Water-spirits take revenge on mortals for pollution of water. F420.5.2.6.6
- Marriage or liaison of mortals and water-spirits. F420.6.1
- Dwarfs came into the land 1000 years before mortals came. F451.1.4
- Dwarfs free mortals from enchantment. F451.3.3.4
- Dwarfs resentful that mortals shoot at birds above Hibichenstein, because this crumbles away the cliff. F451.4.4.1
- Dwarfs serve mortals. F451.5.1.7
- Dwarfs direct mortals to treasure. F451.5.1.9
- Dwarfs lend to mortals. F451.5.1.11
- Dwarfs teach mortals. F451.5.1.18
- Dwarfs kidnap mortals. (Cf. F420.5.2.2. and cross-references there given.) F451.5.2.4
- Dwarfs threaten mortals. F451.5.2.8
- Dwarfs scold mortals. F451.5.2.9
- Dwarfs frighten mortals. F451.5.2.10
- Dwarfs are ancestors of mortals. F451.5.3
- Crippled mortals are of dwarf ancestry. F451.5.3.1
- Dwarfs associate with mortals. F451.5.8
- Business relations of dwarfs and mortals. F451.5.10
- Dwarfs borrow from mortals. F451.5.10.3
- Dwarfs buy peas from mortals and pay more than they are worth. F451.5.10.5
- Ausgelohnt. When dwarfs are paid in full for their work they cease helping mortals. F451.5.10.9
- Dwarfs suffer abuses by mortals. F451.5.11
- Dwarfs thwart efforts of mortals to get additional favors. F451.5.12
- Mortals, informed by those benefited, seek dwarf abode in vain. F451.5.12.1
- Dwarfs exact promise from mortals. F451.5.13
- Dwarfs tease mortals. F451.5.14
- Dwarfs give riddles and questions to mortals. F451.5.15
- Dwarfs invisibly attend wedding or christening feasts of mortals. (Cf. F451.3.3.8.) F451.5.17
- Dwarfs give orders to mortals. F451.5.20
- Dwarfs feast mortals in their home. F451.6.3.1
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals put caraway seeds into bread. F451.9.1.1
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals are false. F451.9.1.2
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals tease them. (Cf. F451.3.6.2.) F451.9.1.7
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals object to their stealing. F451.9.1.8
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals curse. F451.9.1.10
- Dwarfs emigrate because mortals desecrate holy day. F451.9.1.11
- Dwarfs emigrate because of mortals' ingratitude. F451.9.1.12
- As dwarfs emigrate each deposits coin into kettle for mortals. F451.9.4
- Devil's sexual relations with mortals. G303.12.7