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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
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
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
S
Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
U
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 |
|---|---|
| F302.4.1 | Man shoots into wreath of mist and brings down fairy. She becomes his wife. Hartland Science 144. |
| 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. |
| F302.4.2.1 | Fairy comes into man's power when he steals her clothes. She leaves when she finds them. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.4.3 | Hero fights with fairy person, takes his wife and keeps her (for a year). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.4.4 | Man binds fairy and forces her to marry him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5 | Fairy mistress and mortal wife. |
| F302.5.0.1 | Man deserts wife for fairy. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.1 | Fairy mistress surrenders man to his mortal wife (Wildfrau). *Heltzel Philological Quarterly VIII (1930) 348; Irish myth: *Cross Icelandic: Hálfdanar saga Brönufуstra (whole saga). |
| F302.5.1.1 | Bonga girl (fairy) surrenders man to his mortal wife if he will name first daughter after her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.2 | Fairy mistress transforms man's human wife. (Cf. F302.3.2.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.5.2.1 | Divine damsel converts mortal's first wife into a lovely woman; they all live together. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.3 | Man loses luck when he leaves fairy wife for mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.5.4 | Fairy mistress demands that man send his mortal wife away. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.5.5 | Fairy mistress tries to destroy mortal's wife (mother) by sending her a magic belt. Krappe Revue des études Grecques LII (1939) 569ff. |
| F302.6 | Fairy mistress leaves man when he breaks tabu. See all references to C31, C31.1.2, C31.2, C31.4.1, C31.4.2. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.6.1 | Celtic fairy mistress dominant. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.6.2 | Recovery of fairy mistress. |
| F302.6.2.1 | Mortal beats drum as fairies dance before Indra; is granted fairy wife permanently. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| 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. |
| F302.7 | Fairy mistress prophesies mortal lover's fate in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.8 | Fairy mistress demands mortal lover deny Christian teachings. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.9 | Fairy mistress rescues hero from battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.10 | Man to have fairy wife for only seven years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.11 | Prince married to a she-monkey (really queen of the fairies). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F303 | Wedding of mortal and fairy. Feilberg DF V 45ff.; Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 62ff., (1928) 54ff.; Liljeblad 188ff.; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F303.1 | Purification in kettle of boiling oil as preparation for marriage to fairy. Tuti-Nameh 10th Night. |
| F304 | Sexual relations with fairy. |
| F304.1 | Fairy king punishes ravisher of his daughter. Malone PMLA XLIII 406; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F304.2 | Fairy queen's beauty temporarily destroyed by intercourse with mortal. English: Child I 327. |
| F304.3 | Beautiful woman found in bed with man after he has plugged keyholes to keep elves out. Tobler 68; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *423. |
| F304.4 | Mortal violates fairy woman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F304.4.1 | Fairy ravished by mortal strikes flesh from his ear. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F304.5 | Mortal chooses to sleep with fairy as boon for saving her life. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F304.6 | Fée carried off by mortal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F305 | Offspring of fairy and mortal. Malone PMLA XLIII 433; *Krappe études 119ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: *Boberg; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F305.1 | Fairy relative makes gifts to half-mortal child. (Cf. F340.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F305.1.1 | Fairy mother bestows magic powers upon half-mortal son. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F305.2 | Offspring of fairy and mortal extraordinarily beautiful. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F305.2.1 | Right half of son resembles mortal father; left half, fairy father. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F305.3 | Offspring of fairy and mortal has long hair and beard at birth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F310 | Fairies and human children. |
| F311 | Fairies adopt human child. English: Wells 32 (Layamon's Brut). |
| F311.1 | Fairy godmother. Attendant good fairy. *Type 715; Irish myth: Cross; Slavic: Máchal 257f. |
| F311.1.1 | Fairy godmother helps girl escape. England: *Baughman. |
| F311.2 | Fairy foster-father. Guardian to mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F311.2.1 | Man killed on night when fairy guardian relaxes vigilance. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F311.3 | Fairy foster-mother. (Cf. P270.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F311.3.1 | Water fairy as foster-mother. Africa: Weeks Jungle 407. |
| F312 | Fairy presides at child's birth. Sometimes the Norns, the Fates, etc. *Type 410; BP I 439; *W. B. McDaniel Conception, Birth and Infancy in Ancient Rome and Modern Italy (Coconut Grove, Florida, 1948).—Icelandic: Nornagests юáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Corpus Poeticum Boreale I 131, *Boberg; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F312.1 | Fairies bestow supernatural gifts at birth of a child. Hartland Science 204; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| F312.1.1 | Fairies make good wishes for newborn child. (Cf. F316.) Italian: Basile Pentamerone II 8. |
| F312.2 | Fairies control destinies of a mortal. Saintyves Perrault 19. |
| F312.3 | Three fairies sent to queen about to give birth to child. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F313 | Fairies comb children's hair. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F315 | Fairy predicts birth of child. Irish myth: *Cross; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "naissance". |
| F316 | Fairy lays curse on child. (Cf. F312.1.1.) *Type 410; Icelandic: Nornagests юáttr (Bugge ed. 1864) 76, Boberg. |
| F316.1 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by another fairy's amendment. *Type 410; Saintyves Perrault 61. |
| F316.2 | Fairy's curse partially overcome by her own amendment after being appeased. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F317 | Fairy predicts future greatness of newborn child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F320 | Fairies carry people away to fairyland. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b, "døbe" I 227; Hartland Science 163ff.; Feilberg DF V 55ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; H. Hartmann Ueber Krankheit, Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen in Irland (Erster Teil: Krankheit und Fairyentrückung, Halle, 1942); India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F321 | Fairy steals child from cradle. Hartland Science 98—106 passim; Irish myth: *Cross; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 35; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F321.0.1 | Child sold to fairies. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "enfant". |
| F321.1 | Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child. *BP I 368; **G. Piaschewski Der Wechselbalg (Breslau, 1935); Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 835—864; **E. Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936) 76ff.; *Hartland Science 105—122, 134, 145; *Fb "skifting" III 252b.—Irish myth: Cross; England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 7, 117, 143ff., 149, 155ff., 267, Campbell Tales II 57; Icelandic: *Boberg; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 10ff., (1928) 11ff.; Norwegian: *Solheim Register 18; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 36; Dutch: Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 58 No. 91; Slavic: Polívka Slavische Sagen vom Wechselbalg (Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft VI 151ff.), Máchal Slavic Myth. 260, 264; Armenian: Ananikian 78 (left by dragon); India: Penzer VIII 87 n. 1. |
| F321.1.1 | Changeling deceived into betraying his age. *Fb "skifting" III 252b; Rhys Celtic Folk Lore 62, 220, 223, 264, 268; Köhler-Bolte I 220; Zs. f. Vksk. XVI 414; Sikes British Goblins 2, 59f. |
| F321.1.1.1 | 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!" *BP I 368; Hartland Science 113—116; E. H. Meyer Germanische Myth. 79; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 525. |
| F321.1.1.2 | Changeling plays on pipe and thus betrays his maturity. Hartland Science 111.—Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 155ff. |
| F321.1.1.2.1 | Changeling dances wild dance to music, betrays maturity. England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.3 | Changeling addresses woman in verse and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 125. |
| F321.1.1.4 | Changeling shows supernatural power to work and thus betrays maturity. Hartland Science 113; England, Scotland: Baughman. |
| F321.1.1.5 | Changeling calculates his age by the age of the forest. "I have seen the forest grow up three times." *BP I 369; Fb "gammel" IV 174a; Hartland Science 113ff.; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 314ff., (1928) 198ff. |
| F321.1.1.6 | Threat to throw on fire causes changeling to cry out and betray his nature. *BP I 369. |
| F321.1.1.7 | Whipping causes changeling to betray his nature. *BP I 369. |
| F321.1.2 | Characteristics of changeling. |
| F321.1.2.1 | 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. Hartland Science 108. |
| F321.1.2.2 | Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.2.3 | 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). England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.3 | Exorcising a changeling. Hartland Science 122f.; Ireland: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4 | Disposing of a changeling. Hartland Science 105, 117ff.; Fb "skifting" III 252b, 253a.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| F321.1.4.1 | Changeling thrown into water and thus banished. Hartland Science 123f., 129.—England, Ireland: *Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 149. |
| F321.1.4.2 | Changeling thrown into ravine and thus banished. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder. |
| F321.1.4.3 | Changeling thrown on fire and thus banished. (Cf. F321.1.4.5.) Hartland Science 120f.; England, Scotland, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.4 | Changeling left on hill (dunghill, barrow etc.) and thus banished. Hartland Science 118, 126f. |
| F321.1.4.5 | When changeling is threatened with burning, child is returned. (Cf. F321.1.4.3.) Scotland: *Baughman; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 116 No. 19; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3692. |
| F321.1.4.6 | Changeling beaten and left outside; the mortal child is returned. England: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.7 | Mortal mother pays no attention to changeling; the mortal child is returned. Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.8 | Mother treats changeling so well that her own child is returned. England: Baughman. |
| F321.1.4.9 | Changeling made to believe that his house is burning up; he leaves. England, Ireland: *Baughman. |
| F321.1.5 | Water fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies. U.S.: Baughman. |
| F321.2 | Charms against theft of children by fairies. Fb "forbytte" I 337b; Irish myth: Cross; Wales, Scotland: *Baughman; Finnish: Aarne FFC XXXIII 40 No. 22; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 117 No. 22. |
| F321.3 | Man goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.) Hartland Science 127. |
| F321.3.1 | Unbaptized child stolen by fairies found in barn and rescued. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *412. |
| F321.4 | Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairies. Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 40 No. 21. |
| F321.5 | Fairies appear in house and offer to dance with child. England: Baughman (F261.5). |
| 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). |
| F322.0.1 | Woman carried off by water-fairy. Hartland Science 65; German: Erk-Böhme Deutsche Liederhort No. 2; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *4250. |
| F322.1 | Changeling bride. Fairies steal bride and leave a substitute. Hartland Science 130, 142; U.S.: Baughman. |
| F322.1.1 | Fairy borrows comb from Christian maid to comb hair of changeling bride. (Cf. F324.1.) *Fb "ellepige" I 242a. |
| F322.2 | Man rescues his wife from fairyland. (Cf. F321.3.) Hartland Science 133, 142; Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo); Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F322.3 | Stolen mother returns from fairyland each Sunday to minister to her children. Hartland Science 133; Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F322.4 | Abducted bride hidden in fairyland. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F322.5 | Rescue from fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F323 | Fairy women take body of dead hero to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F324 | Girl abducted by fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F324.1 | Girl borrows comb and mirror from bonga (fairy): carried to fairyland when she returns them. (Cf. F322.1.1.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F324.2 | Woman beset by elves (or phantoms) drowns self. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F324.3 | Youth abducted by fairy. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F325.1 | Fairies kidnap boy when he breaks tabu by going outside mansion under earth before 12 years. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F326 | Fairy father carries off child of mortal mother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F327 | Family carried away to fairyland as part of bargain. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F328 | Fairies entice people into their domain. England, Scotland: *Baughman. |
| F329 | Other fairy abductions. |
| F329.1 | Fairies carry off youth; he has gift of prophecy when he returns to earth (Thomas the Rhymer). Scotland: Baughman. |
| F329.2 | Fairies abduct young woman, return her when fight starts over her. England: Baughman. |
| 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. |
| F329.4 | Fairies who stay with mortals. See also F321.1. Changeling. |
| F329.4.1 | 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!" England: *Baughman. |
| F329.4.2 | Fairy child found and cared for, but it pines away. England: Baughman. |
| F329.4.3 | Fairy captured by mortal escapes. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F330 | Grateful fairies. *Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "fées". |
| F331 | Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their sport. Ireland, England, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman (F286.2.). |
| F331.1 | Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their dance. *Type 503; BP III 324ff.; England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman (F379.5.); Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bossu"; Japanese: Mitford 191, Ikeda. |
| F331.2 | Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by letting them cut his hair and shave him. *Type 503. |
| F331.3 | Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by joining in their song and completing it by adding the names of the days of the week. *Type 503; *BP III 329; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F331.4 | Mortal wins fairies' gratitude by playing for their dance. *Type 503; BP III 324ff.; *Fb "spille" III 488b; Hartland Science 180. |
| F332 | Fairy grateful for hospitality. England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 51, Macdougall and Calder 215, 217. |
| F332.0.1 | Fairy grateful to mortal for daily food. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F333 | Fairy grateful to human midwife. (Cf. F372.1.) Hartland Science 55f.; Scotland, Ireland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F334 | Fairy grateful to mortal for healing. Hartland Science 57; U.S.: Baughman. |
| F335 | Fairy grateful for loan. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F335.1 | Fairy grateful for loan of meal causes the vessel to remain full thereafter. (Cf. D1652.1.) Canada, Scotland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F336 | Fairies loyal to mortal who owns their knoll. Scotland: Baughman, Macdougall and Calder 193. |
| F337 | Fairy grateful to mortal for saving his life. (Cf. F304.5.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F337.1 | Fairy grateful to mortal for saving children's life. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F338 | Fairies grateful to man who repairs their utensils or implements. England, Ireland, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| F339 | Other grateful fairies. |
| F339.1 | Fairy grateful for rides on man's back, warns him his cow is choking. Ireland: Baughman. |
| F339.2 | Fairies care for tulip bed out of gratitude to owner for not plucking any of blossoms. England: *Baughman. |
| F339.3 | Fairy grateful for returning lost fairy child. |
| F339.3.1 | Fairies do all house and farm work for family who returns lost child. England: Baughman. |
| F339.3.2 | Fairies cause all ewes to have two lambs for owner who has returned fairy child. Wales: Baughman. |
| F340 | Gifts from fairies. Type 503; BP III 324; Hdwb. d. Märch. s.v. "Elbengeschenke", "Geschenke des kleinen Volkes"; Irish myth: *Cross; French: Saintyves Perrault 72ff.; Italian: Basile Pentamerone Introduction; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F340.1 | Parting fairies leave gifts for newborn princess. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F341 | Fairies give fulfillment of wishes. Hartland Science 55; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 51; English: Wells 32 (Layamon's Brut); Wales: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F341.1 | Fairies give three gifts. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "dons". Rotunda: Italian Novella. |
| F341.2 | Fairy ransoms self with wish. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F341.2.1 | Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F342 | Fairies give mortal money. Hartland Science 39, 53, 56; Irish myth: Cross; English: Wells (Sir Launfal); Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "bourse"; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3594. |
| 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. |
| F342.2 | 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. German, Swedish, Finnish-Swedish, Estonian, Livonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Kashubish, and Wendish: Balys Tautosakos Darbai VI 163—195. |
| F343 | Other presents from fairies. |
| F343.0.1 | Fairy offers mortal choice of magic objects. (Cf. D813.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.1 | Fairies give woman silver spoons. Hartland Science 38. |
| F343.2 | Fairies give hunter a dog. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 285ff. |
| F343.2.1 | Dogs as gifts from fairy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.3 | Fairy smith gives knight a magic sword. English: Wells 32 (Layamon's Brut); Scotch: Campbell Tales III 122. |
| F343.4 | Fairies give avaricious man gift of benevolence. Hartland Science 55. |
| F343.5 | Fairies give beautiful clothes. Irish myth: Cross; Italian: Basile Pentamerone III No. 10. |
| F343.5.1 | Fairy gives magic cloak (and shirt). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.6 | Bonga lends dishes to mortals. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.7 | Fairy-wife furnishes provisions. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.8 | Fairy leaves goats as purchase price for girl he has carried off. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F343.9 | Fairy gives man horses, cattle, etc. Irish myth: *Cross; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F343.9.1 | Horses as fairy gifts. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
| F343.10 | Fairy gives warrior equipment for soldiers. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.10.1 | Fairy gives person magic sword. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.10.2 | Fairy gives person magic spear. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.10.3 | Fairy gives person invulnerable shield. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.11 | Fairy offers man change of form and feature for aid in battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F343.12 | Grateful fairy gives ring. Icelandic: Göngu-Hrуlfs saga 277. |
| F343.13 | Fairy gives mortals a child. French Canadian: Sister Marie Ursule. |
| F343.14 | Golden cup (bowl, urn) as gifts from otherworld inhabitants. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.15 | Magic apple as fairy gift. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.16 | Gigantic ox rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.16.1 | Gigantic hog rib as gift from fairies. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F343.17 | 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.) England: Baughman. |
| F343.18 | Fairies return hatchet head lost in river. England: Baughman. |
| F343.19 | Fairies give mortals fairy bread. |
| F343.19.1 | Fairy bread must be eaten same day it is given or it turns to toadstools. Wales: Baughman. |
| F343.20 | Sack of coals as fairy gift. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F344 | Fairies heal mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| 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. |
| F344.2 | Fairy physician can heal anyone whose spine is not severed. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F344.3 | Fairies give man white powder to cure mortals, replenish his supply whenever needed. England: Baughman. |
| F345 | Fairies instructs mortals. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F345.1 | Fairies teach mortal to walk under water. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F345.2 | Supernatural person (poet) reveals marital infidelity. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F346 | Fairy helps mortal with labor. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 187; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3695; Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges; Italian: Basile Pentamerone IV No. 4; Africa (Gold Coast): Barker and Sinclair 181 No. 36. |
| F346.0.1 | Fairy serves mortal. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F346.1 | Fairies make shoes for shoemaker. German: Grimm No. 39; BP I 364. |
| F346.2 | Fairies build house for mortal. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 508, 510. |
| F347 | Fairy adviser. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 199, 223; Icelandic: *Boberg; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 14f. |
| F347.1 | Bonga made village headman and advice asked. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F348 | Tabus connected with fairy gifts. |
| 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. |
| F348.2 | Cup given by fairy not to be broken. Bad luck will follow (Luck of Edenhall). Hartland Science 156f.; Gröning Am Urquell IV 101f., 208f.; Sprenger ibid. V 34, VI 41, *191 n. 1; Grimm Deutsche Sagen No. 547. |
| F348.3 | Fairy gift not to leave possession of mortal's family. Bad luck will follow. Hartland Science 56. |
| F348.4 | Gifts of gold and silver not to be accepted from fairies. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 277. |
| F348.5 | Mortal not to recognize fairy who gives him gift. Hartland Science 57. |
| F348.5.1 | Mortal not to betray secret of fairies' gift. Wales, England: *Baughman. |
| F348.5.1.1 | Mortal not to tell secret of gift of inexhaustible meat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F348.5.2 | Mortal not to thank fairy for gifts. England: *Baughman (F451.5.10.9). |
| F348.6 | Gifts of the fairies must never be measured or counted. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3694. |
| F348.7 | Tabu: telling of fairy gifts; the gifts cease. England, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F348.7.1 | Abuse of fairy gifts brings about their loss. Wales: Baughman. |
| F348.8 | Tabu: mortal for whom fairy works must not watch him at work. England, Scotland, Wales: *Baughman. |
| F348.9 | Gift barrel of ale which never runs dry goes dry when maid looks into bunghole. England: Baughman. |
| F348.9.1 | Fairy gifts turn to paper when shown. (Cf. F342.1, F348.0.1.) Wales: Baughman. |
| F349 | Gifts from fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F349.1 | Fairy aids mortal in flight. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F349.2 | Fairy aids mortal in battle. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F349.3 | Fairies exile devastating host. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F349.4 | Fairy promises abundant crops, etc., to mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F350 | Theft from fairies. |
| F351 | Theft of money from fairies. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F351.1 | Theft of money from fairies by joining unperceived in their game of money-throwing. Hartland Science 139; England: *Baughman. |
| F351.2 | Theft of money from fairies by frightening them away from it. Hartland Science 140. |
| F352 | Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies. Fb "guldhorn" I 513; Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 206ff., (1928) 144ff.; Icelandic: Herrmann Saxo II 590, *Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 65 No. 559. |
| F352.1 | Theft of cup (drinking horn) from fairies when they offer mortal drink. Hartland Science 141—159 passim; Boberg Festskrift til Hammerich, 1952, 53—61. —England: *Baughman. |
| F352.2 | Theft of vessel from water-deity. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F353 | Kettle borrowed from fairies and not returned. (Cf. F343.17.) Hartland Science 244; England: *Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F354 | Fairy's ornament snatched. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F355 | King's crown stolen from fairyland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F356 | Fairy cattle (bull, cow) stolen. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F357 | Unsuccessful attempt to steal fairy necklace. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F358 | Money borrowed from the fairies and not returned on time. England: *Baughman. |
| F359 | Theft from fairies—miscellaneous. |
| F359.1 | Eggs stolen from fairies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F359.2 | Theft of golden bird from fairies. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F360 | Malevolent or destructive fairies (= pixies). Saintyves Perrault 83ff.; Irish: *Cross, O'Suilleabhain 62, Beal XXI 324; Icelandic: Boberg, Papua: Ker 73. |
| F360.0.1 | Malevolent or hostile beings in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F360.1 | Fairies pursue unbaptized children. *Fb "udøbt" III 959b. |
| F361 | Fairy's revenge. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.1 | Fairy takes revenge for being slighted. |
| F361.1.1 | Fairy takes revenge for not being invited to feast. *Type 410; BP I 434ff.; Missouri French: Carrière. |
| F361.1.2 | Fairy takes revenge for not being offered food (drink). Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.1.2.1 | Fairy takes revenge for mortal's failure to bring food and drink to fairy son's wedding. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F361.2 | Fairy takes revenge for theft. Hartland Science 141, 143; Jacobs's list s.v. "Red Cap"; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 52. |
| F361.2.1 | Fairy recovers stolen cup by posing as a beggar. Hartland Science 141. |
| F361.2.2 | Fairies cause man to lose his senses after he steals flower while visiting them. Wales: Baughman. |
| F361.2.3 | Fairies bind man fast to ground after he has attempted to capture fairy prince and princess. England: Baughman. |
| F361.2.4 | Fairy gifts stop when man steals fairy knife. England: Baughman. |
| 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. |
| F361.3.1 | Fairies leave work unfinished when overseen. (Cf. F271.2.1, F271.5.) Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman. |
| F361.3.2 | Fairies chase person who watches them dance. England: Baughman (F261.4.) |
| 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. |
| F361.5 | Fairies punish girl who pours hot water into their spring. Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 47 No. 392. |
| F361.6 | Fairies slay wooer (or his kin) of fairy maiden. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F361.7 | Fairies take revenge on mortals who hold their king captive. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F361.8 | Fairy takes revenge for slaying of his relatives. Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Boberg. |
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