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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
E
The Dead
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Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| F241.7 | Fairies have sheep. Wales: Baughman. |
| F233.5 | Fairies have yellow (golden) hair (clothing). Irish myth: *Cross; Society Islands: Beckwith Myth 335. |
| F344 | Fairies heal mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F258.1 | Fairies hold a fair. England: *Baughman. |
| F259.1.4 | Fairies immortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F236.1.2 | Fairies in blue clothes. *Fb "blе" IV 52a. |
| F237 | Fairies in disguise. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F366.3 | Fairies in form of devastating animals kill flocks. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F236.1.5 | Fairies in gleaming clothes. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F236.1.4 | Fairies in gray clothes. *Fb "ellepige" I 242a. |
| F215.1.1 | Fairies in heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F236.2 | Fairies in long robes. *Fb "ellepige" I 242a. |
| F236.1.1 | Fairies in red clothes. *Fb "blе" IV 52a; England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman. |
| F236.1.3 | Fairies in white clothes. *Fb "hvid" I 700b; Irish myth: Cross; England, Wales: Baughman; North Carolina: Brown Collection I 687. |
| F345 | Fairies instructs mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F235.1 | Fairies invisible. Tobler 94f.; Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "invisibilité"; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F325.1 | Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F259.1.1 | Fairies kill each other. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F271.0.2 | Fairies lacking axes work with their teeth. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 333. |
| F361.17.1 | Fairies lame miller who throws sod into his kiln where fairies are cooking oatmeal; the oatmeal scalds them. England: *Baughman. |
| F369.7 | Fairies lead travelers astray. (Cf. E272.10, F401.3, F491.1.) Canada, England, Ireland, U.S., Wales: *Baughman. |
| F383.4.2 | Fairies leave at rise of morning star. Cook Islands: Beckwith Myth 336. |
| F381.12 | Fairies leave when ordered to fight each other. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F381.7 | Fairies leave when people do their needs where they live. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F381.10 | Fairies leave when person watches them at work. (Cf. F348.10.) |
| F381.13 | Fairies leave when thanked for their work. (Cf. F451.5.10.9.) |
| F361.3.1 | Fairies leave work unfinished when overseen. (Cf. F271.2.1, F271.5.) Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman. |
| F381.2 | Fairies leaves when mortal strews peas in his path. BP I 365. |
| F216 | Fairies live in forest. Wimberly 127. |
| F215 | Fairies live in star-world. (Cf. F205.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F216.1 | Fairies live in trees by stream. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241a; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F211.3 | Fairies live under earth. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F235.8.1 | Fairies lose power of invisibility if mortals gain knowledge of their secret. (Cf. F361.3.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F235.8 | Fairies lose power of invisibility. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F336 | Fairies loyal to mortal who owns their knoll. Scotland: Baughman, Macdougall and Calder 193. |
| F235.8.2 | Fairies made visible by looking with left eye. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F235.5.1 | Fairies made visible by standing on another's foot. Hartland Science 162. |
| F235.5 | Fairies made visible by stepping on certain spot. Hartland Science 162. |
| F235.4.5 | Fairies made visible through the use of saliva. Hartland Science 62. |
| F235.4 | Fairies made visible through use of magic object. |
| F235.4.2 | Fairies made visible through use of magic soap. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 277; England: Baughman. |
| F235.4.3 | Fairies made visible through use of magic stone on eyes. Hartland Science 61. |
| F235.4.4 | Fairies made visible through use of magic water. Hartland Science 66; Fb "marelok" II 553; England, Scotland: Baughman. |
| F235.4.1 | Fairies made visible through use of ointment. (Cf. E361.3.) *Fb "salve" III 150b; *Hartland Science 59—67; English: Child I 339, II 505b, III 505b, V290a; England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, U.S.: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 449. |
| F235.4.6 | Fairies made visible when one carries four-leaf clover. (Cf. D1323.14.) England: *Baughman. |
| F235.5.2 | Fairies made visible when person steps into fairy ring. (Cf. F218, F261.1.) England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F235.9 | Fairies made visible when person walks three times around field where cows are grazing at night. (Cf. D1791.) England: Baughman. |
| F312.1.1 | Fairies make good wishes for newborn child. (Cf. F316.) Italian: Basile Pentamerone II 8. |
| F262 | Fairies make music. Hartland Science 141, 155; Krappe Balor 88; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 165, *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 163, 209; Icelandic: MacCulloch Eddic 225; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F346.1 | Fairies make shoes for shoemaker. German: Grimm No. 39; BP I 364. |
| F271.1 | Fairies milk cows. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 129ff. |
| F366.1 | Fairies milk mortal's cows dry. *Kittredge Witchcraft 166, 484 n. 23; Fb "ko" II 240b; England: Baughman. |
| F366.1.1 | Fairies milk mortal's mare. Hartland Science 130. |
| F255.1 | Fairies must trade whenever it is demanded of them. It does not matter how uneven the trade may be. Hartland Science 131. |
| F254.2 | Fairies not omniscient. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F365.3 | Fairies occupy peasant's house. *Fb "hus" I 687a. |
| F255.3 | Fairies once seen by mortals no longer invisible at will. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F456.4.1 | Fairies operate coal mine. Wales: Baughman. |
| F389 | Fairies otherwise defeated. |
| F241.5.1 | Fairies own herd of ibexes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F361.17.3 | Fairies pinch plowboy who breaks their wooden oven as he plows. England: Baughman. |
| F366.2.1 | Fairies plait manes and tails of horses. Canada, England: *Baughman. |
| F253.1.1 | Fairies possess extraordinary strength. Irish myth: Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F399.2 | Fairies protect selves by means of smoke. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.5 | Fairies punish girl who pours hot water into their spring. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 47 No. 392. |
| F361.15 | Fairies punish mortals who refuse to eat fairy food given them. England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F361.16 | Fairies punish person who needs punishing because of his treatment of other mortals. (Cf. F311.1.) England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F360.1 | Fairies pursue unbaptized children. *Fb "udøbt" III 959b. |
| F256 | Fairies read men's thoughts. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 307 No. 22; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F344.1 | Fairies remove hunchback's hump (or replace it). *Type 503; BP III 324ff.; RTP I 129, 186, III 582, V 690, VIII 549, IX 285, X 124, XX 389, XXII 79, XXVII 490; Clouston Tales I 352; FL XIX 324ff.—Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 205ff.; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bossu"; cf. Japanese: Mitford 191ff., Ikeda. |
| F343.18 | Fairies return hatchet head lost in river. England: Baughman. |
| F241.1.1.4 | Fairies ride cream-colored horses. England: Baughman. |
| F241.1.1.2 | Fairies ride dapple-gray horses. English: Child I 324, 326, Baughman. |
| F366.1.3 | Fairies ride farmer's calves. England: *Baughman. |
| F366.2 | Fairies ride mortal's horses at night. *Kittredge Witchcraft 219f., 526ff. nn. 65—77; Fb "marelok" II 553; England, U.S.: *Baughman; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 127 No. 60; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 60. |
| F241.1.3 | Fairies ride on three-legged horses. Fb "underjordiske" III 975b. |
| F241.1.1.1 | Fairies ride white horses. English: Child I 216, 323, 325, 339f.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F244.4 | Fairies scare treasure-seeker away from hoard. They get bigger and bigger, and cause violent storms until seeker leaves. Cf. D2141.0.2. England: Baughman. |
| F372.2 | Fairies seek human godparent. *BP I 366; Hartland Science 170. |
| F235.7 | Fairies seen as dark shadows. Tobler 89. |
| F369.1 | Fairies set fire to buildings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.1 | Fairies sing. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "synge" III 706b; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "chant", "chanteuse". |
| F271.3 | Fairies skillful as smiths. *Fb "smed" III 402a; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland: Baughman, Boberg DF XLVI 83. |
| F271.4.2 | Fairies skillful as weavers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F361.6 | Fairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maiden. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F369.5.1 | Fairies snip corn from stalks. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F271.4.3 | Fairies spin. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 56. |
| F399.4.1 | Fairies sport with mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F365.2 | Fairies steal anchor. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "ancre". |
| F365.1 | Fairies steal ass. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "âne". |
| F365.6 | Fairies steal cattle (pig). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F365.7 | Fairies steal cooking. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F322 | Fairies steal man's wife and carry her to fairyland. *Krappe études 131 n. 2; Hartland Science 133; *Krappe Revue Celtique XLVIII 94ff.; *Cross and Hitze Lancelot and Guenevere 31ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Scotland: Macdougall and Calder 267, Baughman; England: Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo). |
| F365.5 | Fairies steal pieces as mortal plays draughts with fairy woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F241.1.7 | Fairies steal stalks of hemp and turn them into horses. (Cf. D449.5.) Scotland: Baughman. |
| F365.8 | Fairies steal wool. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F365 | Fairies steal. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "stjæle" III 576a; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F302.3.1.2 | Fairies stop ship to entice man to their land. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F372.1 | Fairies take human midwife to attend fairy woman. (Cf. F333.) *Hartland Science 37—92; *Fb "jordemoder"; *BP I 367; Wentz Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (London, 1911) 49f., 54, 131, 140, 175, 182; Tobler 76.—English: Child I 358ff. No. 40, II 505f., III 505f., IV 459a, V 215b, 290b; Scottish: J. G. Campbell Superstitions 147; England, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman; Icelandic: Göngu Hrуlfs saga 275ff.; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 44 No. 41; Danish: Feilberg DF V 69ff., Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 330ff., (1928) 210ff.; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "sage-femme", "fées"; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F372 | Fairies take human nurse to attend fairy child. Irish myth: *Cross; English: *Child I 358 No. 40; England, Scotland: Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nourrice". |
| F329.3 | 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. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F361.9 | Fairies take revenge for being dishonored. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.10 | Fairies take revenge for being teased. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3693. |
| F361.13 | Fairies take revenge for cheating. England: Baughman. |
| F361.12 | Fairies take revenge on mortals who destroy their homes. Irish myth: *Cross; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F361.7 | Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.3 | Fairies take revenge on person who spies on them. Spy uses magic salve on one eye. Fairies tear out the eye. Hartland Science 66ff.; Jacob's list s.v. "Fairy salve".—Irish: Cross, E. Andrews Ulster Folklore (New York, 1919) 66f.; Welsh: Rhys Celtic Folklore I 63, 98f., 198, 213, 220—228, 241f., 292; English: FLJ II 154; Icelandic: Rittershaus 303; Färoe: Jiriczek Zs. f. Vksk. II 13 No. 14; Danish: Thiele DF II 202f.; German: Meyer Germanen 182; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3276f.; Legends Nos. 429, 431, 433, 438ff., 442, 444, 447; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 47 No. 388; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F361.17.2 | Fairies take revenge on smith who disturbs them in the smithy when he returns after dark to get medicine. Ireland: Baughman. |
| F361.4 | Fairies take revenge on trespassers on ground they claim as theirs. *Fb "stald" III 534ab; Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 191; Scotland, Ireland, U.S.: Baughman. |
| F262.2 | Fairies teach bagpipe-playing. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 175. |
| F345.1 | Fairies teach mortal to walk under water. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.11 | Fairies threaten watcher of sheep. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3696. |
| F363.6 | Fairies tickle mortals to death. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F239.1 | Fairies tied together by hair. *Fb "hеr" I 771b. |
| F282.1 | Fairies travel in eddies of wind. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F282 | Fairies travel through air. |
| F235.2 | Fairies visible only at certain times. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F235.2.1 | Fairies visible only at night. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "nuit". |
| F235.2.2 | Fairies visible only at noonday. Fb "middag" II 585. |
| F235.6 | Fairies visible through magic ring. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 47, Cross. |
| F235.3 | Fairies visible to one person alone. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Sir Launfal (Ritson ed.) line 501. |
| F266 | Fairies warm themselves. Fb "ovn" II 774b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 56 No. 481. |
| F271.9 | Fairies wash their clothes: they are heard only at this task. England: *Baughman. |
| F236.6 | Fairies wear gay clothing. England: Baughman. |
| F236.5.1 | Fairies wear patched coats. England: Baughman. |
| F262.7 | Fairies whistle. England: Baughman. |
| F329.4 | Fairies who stay with mortals. See also F321.1. Changeling. |
| F381.9 | Fairies will not approach when dogs are present. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F236.3 | Fairies with belts and hats. Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F231.2.1 | Fairies with bird feet. *Gaster Germania XXV 290ff. |
| F236.4 | Fairies with gold crowns on head. Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F236.3.2 | Fairies with red caps. (Cf. F451.2.7.1, F460.1.4.2.) England, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F236.3.1 | Fairies with three-cornered hats. England: Baughman. |
| F232.3 | Fairies with unusually large ears. Tobler 63. |
| F271.4 | Fairies work on cloth. |
| F364.2 | Fairies wrestle with mortals. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F390 | Fairies—miscellaneous motifs. |
| F363.1 | Fairies, directed by druid, bring about death of king by causing fish-bone to stick in his throat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241 | Fairies' animals. |
| F243.1 | Fairies' bread. Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "pain". |
| F241.2.2 | Fairies' cattle become invisible. Irish myth: Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bétail". |
| F241.2.3 | Fairies' cattle under a lake. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 128. |
| F242 | Fairies' conveyances. |
| F241.2 | Fairies' cows. (Cf. F460.2.9.) Irish myth: *Cross; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 44 No. 57**; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 51 Nos. 430—434. |
| F243.5 | Fairies' food gives immortality. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F243 | Fairies' food. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.1.8.2 | Fairies' horses are of normal size. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F241.1.4 | Fairies' horses have round shoes. Fb "hestesko" IV 213b. |
| F241.1.8.1 | Fairies' horses the size of greyhounds. Wales: Baughman. |
| F241.1.2.1 | Fairies' horses water at peasant's well. *Fb "hest" I 599a. |
| F241.1 | Fairies' horses. Howey 2; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, Wales: Baughman. |
| F241.1.2.2 | Fairies' mare foals every year on first of May. Wales: Baughman. |
| F245 | Fairies' musical instruments. |
| F278 | Fairies' strategy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F244 | Fairies' treasure. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F222.1.1 | Fairies' underground palace cannot be burned by fire nor destroyed by water. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F222.1 | Fairies' underground palace. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10. |
| F365.4 | Fairy (bonga) steals part of crop. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F585.0.1 | Fairy (god) as phantom. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.1.4 | Fairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F347 | Fairy adviser. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 199, 223; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 14f. |
| F349.2 | Fairy aids mortal in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F349.1 | Fairy aids mortal in flight. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.0.1 | Fairy animal hunted. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F393.2 | Fairy appears to mortal each Hallowe'en. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F255.4 | Fairy army can go among mortals only on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F252.3 | Fairy army. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F232.4.1 | Fairy as a small pretty girl with blond hair. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F234.2.7 | Fairy as guide to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1 | Fairy as harper. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.2.3 | Fairy as headless woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F271.6 | Fairy as herdsman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.2.6 | Fairy as messenger from fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F253.1.1.1 | Fairy as mighty lifter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F234.0.2 | Fairy as shape-shifter. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.1.15.1 | Fairy as swan. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F234.2.8 | Fairy assumes shape of woman and frequents bazaars. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.3.1 | Fairy avenges herself on inconstant lover (husband). *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b; Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXV (1933) 115ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 372—389. |
| F302.3.3 | Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love. English: Child I 376ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F252.4.1 | Fairy banished for adultery. (Cf. F254.5, Q241.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F252.4.2 | Fairy banished for falsehood. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F265 | Fairy bathes. Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 3; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F259.1.2 | Fairy becomes mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.2.3 | Fairy boat from flax-stem. Maori: Beckwith Myth 335. |
| F242.2.2 | Fairy boat of bronze. (Cf. F841.1.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.2 | Fairy boat. Irish myth: *Cross; Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 194; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bateau". |
| F322.1.1 | Fairy borrows comb from Christian maid to comb hair of changeling bride. (Cf. F324.1.) *Fb "ellepige" I 242a. |
| F343.19.1 | Fairy bread must be eaten same day it is given or it turns to toadstools. Wales: Baughman. |
| F361.17.4 | Fairy breaks leg of servant girl who tells lies about him. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F239.3 | Fairy breathes fire. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F363.5 | Fairy calls her victim only once or twice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F329.4.3 | Fairy captured by mortal escapes. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F387 | Fairy captured. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1.1 | Fairy car becomes invisible. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1 | Fairy car. Malone PMLA XLIII 421; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F222.3 | Fairy castle of glass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F222 | Fairy castle. Dickson 114 n. 34.—English: Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo); Irish myth: *Cross; Ireland, Wales: Baughman; Lithuanian: Balys Index Nr. 3600. |
| F278.1 | Fairy casts huge stones to keep enemies off. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F356 | Fairy cattle (bull, cow) stolen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.2.4 | Fairy cattle graze on earth on Hallowe'en. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F362.4 | Fairy causes mutilation (injury). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.1.0.1 | Fairy cavalcade. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1.3 | Fairy chariot of precious metal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F242.1.2 | Fairy chariot rides waves. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F329.4.2 | Fairy child found and cared for, but it pines away. England: Baughman. |
| F302.4.2.1 | Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her clothes. She leaves when she finds them. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.4.2 | Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her wings (clothes). She leaves when she finds them. Slavic: Máchal 258; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *404; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 55. |
| F261.2 | Fairy dances in snow: no tracks left. (Cf. F255.5.) Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 50 No. 420. |
| F389.5 | Fairy defeated by druid's magic. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F259.1.3 | Fairy dies of longing for fairyland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F234.3.1 | Fairy disappears in form of a cloud. Tobler 87. |
| F393.0.1 | Fairy dissatisfied with fairyland leaves to live among mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F241.6 | Fairy dogs. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.1 | Fairy entices man into fairyland. Hartland Science 41, 163, 184, 202; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F381.4 | Fairy escaped by learning and using his secrets. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 56 No. 484. |
| F221.4 | Fairy family lives in neat cottage. England: Baughman. |
| F326 | Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F244.3 | Fairy fetches mortals to remove treasure hidden by ghosts in their lifetimes. (Cf. N510.) Wales: Baughman. |
| F243.4 | Fairy food undiminished when eaten. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F311.2 | Fairy foster-father. Guardian to mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F311.3 | Fairy foster-mother. (Cf. P270.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F348.0.1 | Fairy gift disappears or is turned to something worthless when tabu is broken. German: Grimm No. 182; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *771. |
| F348.1 | Fairy gift not to be taken to earth. Hartland Science 50. |
| F348.3 | Fairy gift not to leave possession of mortal's family. Bad luck will follow. Hartland Science 56. |
| F361.2.4 | Fairy gifts stop when man steals fairy knife. England: Baughman. |
| F348.9.1 | Fairy gifts turn to paper when shown. (Cf. F342.1, F348.0.1.) Wales: Baughman. |
| F251.9 | Fairy gives instructions on means of reaching heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.5.1 | Fairy gives magic cloak (and shirt). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.9 | Fairy gives man horses, cattle, etc. Irish myth: *Cross; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F343.13 | Fairy gives mortals a child. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F343.10.3 | Fairy gives person invulnerable shield. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.10.2 | Fairy gives person magic spear. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.10.1 | Fairy gives person magic sword. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.6.2.2 | Fairy gives up her fairy nature and becomes mortal to be able to return to her mortal husband. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.10 | Fairy gives warrior equipment for soldiers. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F311.1.1 | Fairy godmother helps girl escape. England: *Baughman. |
| F311.1 | Fairy godmother. Attendant good fairy. *Type 715; Irish myth: Cross; Slavic: Máchal 257f. |
| F342.1 | Fairy gold. Fairies give coals (wood, earth) that turns to gold. *Type 503; BP I 366, III 324ff.; Hartland Science 57; Fb "kul" II 326b, "guld" I 512, "hövlspеn" I 762, "jord" II 45b.—England: Baughman; Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 No. 2; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 47 No. 388; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 434, Index No. *771, 3648; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F332 | Fairy grateful for hospitality. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 51, Macdougall and Calder 215, 217. |
| F335.1 | Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) Canada, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F335 | Fairy grateful for loan. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F339.3 | Fairy grateful for returning lost fairy child. |
| F339.1 | Fairy grateful for rides on man's back, warns him his cow is choking. Ireland: Baughman. |
| F333 | Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.) Hartland Science 55f.; Scotland, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F332.0.1 | Fairy grateful to mortal for daily food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F334 | Fairy grateful to mortal for healing. Hartland Science 57; U.S.: Baughman. |
| F337.1 | Fairy grateful to mortal for saving children's life. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F337 | Fairy grateful to mortal for saving his life. (Cf. F304.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F223 | Fairy hall. Hartland Science 41. |
| F366.5 | Fairy hangs on to carriage on road. (Cf. E272.1.) England: Baughman. |
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