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Motifs — first 20 of 444
- Lake created by fairies. A920.1.7
- Indentions on rocks from footprints of fairies (angels, devils). A972.2
- Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies. C51.4.3
- Tabu: kissing fairies. This puts one in their power. (Cf. C112.) C122
- Tabu: fairies eating mortal food. C211.3.2
- Tabu: looking at fairies. C311.1.2
- Tabu: lying under tree. Girl who does so carried off by fairies. (Cf. C520.) C516
- Transformation: dolls change to fairies when flute is played. D435.1.2
- Fairies (gods?) transformed to animals fight. D615.4.1
- Fairies become birds every other year. D624.2
- Magic yew tree created by fairies. D950.14.1
- Magic yew rod used by druid to discover whereabouts of woman carried off by fairies to underground retreat. D1311.15.1
- Magic knowledge of fairies. D1810.0.4
- Fairies cause illusions. D2031.0.2
- Elves get stones from fairies who get them from mermaids. The devil does the finishing work on the stones. D2066.1
- Ghost misleads traveler on road. See similar actions of fairies, witches, Will-o-the-wisp. (Cf. F402.1.1.) E272.5
- Fairies pursued in wild hunt. E501.5.2
- Fairies (elves). See also F420 (Water Spirits), F451 (Dwarfs) and F460 (Mountain Spirits) for many common motifs. F200
- Bongas. Roughly equivalent to fairies. Generally malevolent, but often not. F201
- Prehistoric burial mounds as dwellings of fairies. F211.0.1