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See also Fairy, Pixie, Plant spirit
Keywords:
Elf, fairy, popular belief, supernatural
Description of this motif: Fairies are very small, supernatural beings, who usually are attached to nature, as opposed to goblins (pixies), who often live in buildings. Fairies are woodland creatures and correspond to the nymphs and satyrs of Greek myth.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 1 Dødningen (Danish title) (1830)
- 1 Alferne paa Heden (Danish title) (1831)
- 1 The Traveling Companion (1835)
- 1 The Rose Elf (1839)
- 1 Twenty-seventh Evening (1840)
- 1 Ole Lukoie (1841)
- 1 Soup on a Sausage Peg (1858)
- 1 "Beautiful" (1859)
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