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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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A
Mythological Motifs
B
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
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference ▲ | Description |
|---|---|
| F262.3 | Fairy minstrel. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1 | Fairy as harper. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1.1 | Fairy harper plays two harps at once. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1.2 | Fairy harper in yew tree. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.1.3 | Fairy harper in tiny bronze boat. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.2 | Fairy minstrel's birds sing accompaniment. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.3.3 | Fairy minstrel's music heard far and wide. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.3.4 | Fairy music causes sleep. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.5 | Fairy music causes mourning. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.6 | Fairy music causes joy (laughter). Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F262.3.7 | Fairy music causes weakness. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.4 | Fairy music compared to music of Heaven. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.5 | Fairy music—person listening is without food or sleep for a year. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.6 | Fairy music so potent it would cause wounded men to sleep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F262.7 | Fairies whistle. England: Baughman. |
| F262.8 | Fairy horns heard by mortals. Scotland: Baughman. |
| F262.9 | Fairy music makes seven years seem like one day to mortal hearer. (Cf. D2011.1.) England: Baughman. |
| F262.10 | Fairy music—-miscellaneous. |
| F262.10.1 | Fairy music issues from stone. England: Baughman. |
| F262.10.2 | Fairy music issues from fairy ring. England: Baughman. |
| F263 | Fairies feast. Hartland Science 144, 155; Keightley 283; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman. |
| F263.1 | Fairy's share of feast a nut. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F264 | Fairy wedding. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F265 | Fairy bathes. Hoffman-Krayer Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 3; Irish myth: *Cross; England: Baughman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F265.1 | Fairies frequently use bath house. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| F266 | Fairies warm themselves. Fb "ovn" II 774b; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 56 No. 481. |
| F267 | Fairies attend games. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F268 | Burial among underworld folk. *Fb "begravelse" IV 30b; Irish myth: Cross. |
| F268.1 | Burial service for fairy queen is held at night in Christian church. England: *Baughman. |
| F271 | Fairies as laborers. |
| F271.0.1 | Fairies as craftsmen. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 329. |
| F271.0.2 | Fairies lacking axes work with their teeth. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 333. |
| F271.1 | Fairies milk cows. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 129ff. |
| F271.2 | Fairies as builders. |
| F271.2.0.1 | Fairies build great structures in one night. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 333. |
| F271.2.1 | Fairies excavate passage. Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 173; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "souterrain". |
| F271.2.2 | Fairies build causeway. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F271.2.3 | Fairies build canoe. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 332. |
| F271.3 | Fairies skillful as smiths. *Fb "smed" III 402a; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Scotland, Ireland: Baughman, Boberg DF XLVI 83. |
| F271.4 | Fairies work on cloth. |
| F271.4.1 | Fairies bleach linen. Fb "linned" II 435b; England: Baughman; Danish: Kristensen Danske Sagn I (1892) 182ff., (1928) 128ff. |
| F271.4.2 | Fairies skillful as weavers. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| F271.4.3 | Fairies spin. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 56. |
| F271.5 | Fairies clear land. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F271.6 | Fairy as herdsman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F271.7 | Fairies churn. *Boberg DF XLVI 84. |
| F271.8 | Fées engage in needlework. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F271.9 | Fairies wash their clothes: they are heard only at this task. England: *Baughman. |
| F271.10 | Fairies bake bread. **Boberg DF XLVI. |
| F273 | Fairy shows remarkable skill. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F273.1 | Fairy shows remarkable skill as marksman. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F273.2 | Fairy shows remarkable skill as runner. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F274 | Fairy physician. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F275 | Fairies descend chimney. England, Scotland: Baughman; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "cheminée". |
| F276 | Fairies call out to mortals. *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F277 | Battle of fairies and gods. Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Campbell Tales II 85. |
| F277.0.1 | War between fairy settlements. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F277.0.2 | Fairies fight among selves for possession of island. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F277.0.3 | Good and bad fairies battle. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F278 | Fairies' strategy. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F278.1 | Fairy casts huge stones to keep enemies off. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F278.2 | Fairies create magic concealing mist. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F281 | Fairy replaces man's heart with heart of straw. Eyes with wood, etc. English: Child I 343—356 passim. |
| F282 | Fairies travel through air. |
| F282.1 | Fairies travel in eddies of wind. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F282.2 | Formulas for fairies' travel through air. England: Baughman. |
| F282.3 | Fairies come from the kingdom of Indra to earth in four flying thrones. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F285 | Anchor falls on fairies. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "ancre". |
| F300 | Marriage or liaison with fairy. Irish myth: *Cross, Beal XXI 335, Tupper and Ogle Walter Map 96. |
| F300.1 | Giants guard fairy princess from mortal man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F300.2 | Husband pursues fairy wife to heaven. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 55. |
| F301 | Fairy lover. Fb "underjordiske" III 975a; Dickson 121 n. 65; Hartland Science 64; Irish myth: *Cross; Scotch: Macdougall and Calder 133ff.; Icelandic: Boberg, *Feilberg DF V 43ff.; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 343. |
| F301.1 | Summoning fairy lover. |
| F301.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by breaking tabu. |
| F301.1.1.1 | Girl summons fairy lover by wishing for him. English: Child I 6ff. No. 2. |
| F301.1.1.2 | Girl summons fairy lover by plucking flowers. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.1.1.3 | Girl summons fairy lover by lying under tree. English: Child V 499 s.v. "trees". |
| F301.1.1.4 | Girl summons fairy lover by pulling nuts. English: Child I 360 n. |
| F301.2 | Fairy lover entices mortal girl. |
| F301.2.1 | Elf-knight produces love-longing by blowing on horn. English: Child I 15ff., 23, 55, 367. |
| F301.3 | Girl goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Hartland Science 64. |
| F301.4 | Tasks set maid by elfin knight before she can marry him. English: Child I 15ff. |
| F301.5 | Elf-knight entices maiden away and kills her. English: Child I 47; Japanese: Ikeda. |
| F301.6 | Fairy lover abducts fairy wife of mortal. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F301.7 | Girl goes to see her fairy lover on certain nights. Icelandic: Sveinsson FFC LXXXVIII 10f. (Type 306 III). |
| F301.8 | Fairy runs away from wedding with mortal girl. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302 | Fairy mistress. Mortal man marries or lives with fairy woman. *Hoffman-Krayer Zs f. Vksk. XXV 120 n. 4; *Puckett MPh XVI 297; Clouston Tales I 212ff.; Malone PMLA XLIII 406; *Grimes The Lays of Desiré, Graelent and Melion (New York, 1928); *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIII 97ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Hjálmthèrs saga ok ölvis 477, Boberg; Finnish-Swedish: Wessman 56 No. 483; Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 44 Nos 42, 43; India: *Thompson-Balys; Indonesia: De Vries's list No. 151; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 500. |
| F302.0.1 | Bonga mistress. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.1 | Man goes to fairyland and marries fairy. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 130ff. (Sir Launfal, Emare); Spanish Exempla: Keller; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.1.1 | Mortals supplied with fairy mistresses during visit to fairyland. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.1.2 | Mortal gives fairy ring after night spent with her in fairyland. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.2 | Man marries fairy and takes her to his home. **Köhler Der Ursprung der Melusinensage (1895); *Fränkel Zs. f. Vksk. IV 387; *Fb "menneske" II 577b; see also all references for C31.1.2; Hartland Science 168; Malone PMLA XLIII 417; Irish myth: *Cross; England, Wales: Baughman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.2.1 | Fairy wife deserts mortal husband for repulsive lover. Malone PMLA XLIII 416ff.; Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3 | Fairy wooes mortal man. Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.0.1 | Fairy visits mortal and becomes his mistress. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.0.2 | Raja refuses to marry a Peri. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.1 | Fairy entices man into fairyland. Hartland Science 41, 163, 184, 202; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.1.1 | Bonga girl (fairy) will return stolen goods only if mortal man will go with her. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.1.2 | Fairies stop ship to entice man to their land. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.1.3 | Man is carried to fairyland by fairy and marries her. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.1.4 | Fairy abducts whomever she falls in love with. (Cf. F320.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.2 | Fairy offers gifts to man to be her paramour. Irish myth: *Cross; English: Child I 314, 375f., 384, III 504a, V 214; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F302.3.2.1 | Fairy offers aid to man if he will marry her. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.3.2.2 | Fairy offers to disenchant mortal wife if man will marry her. (Cf. F302.5.2.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| F302.3.3 | Fairy avenges self on man who scorns her love. English: Child I 376ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| 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. |
| F302.3.4 | Fairies entice men and then harm them. Irish myth: *Cross; Japanese: Mitford 243; West Indies: Flowers 433. |
| F302.3.4.1 | Fairy kisses man. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.4.1.1 | Fairy's kiss fatal. Fb "kys" II 349. |
| F302.3.4.2 | Fairies dance with youth till he dies (or goes insane). *Fb "ellefolk" I 241b. |
| F302.3.4.2.1 | Pixies win dancing contest with man. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.3.4.3 | Fairy wooes and deserts man. Clouston Tales I 215ff.; Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F302.3.4.4 | Fairy takes lover back to fairyland in magic sleep. *Krappe Romania LX (1934) 79ff. |
| F302.3.4.5 | Fairies fall in love with prince and charm him into a deathlike sleep. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F302.4 | Man obtains power over fairy mistress. Irish myth: Cross. |
| 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. |
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