Fairy Stories and Anecdotes from around the World

<body background="../Images/book-left.jpg" bgcolor=#ffffff text=#008800 link=#0000bb vlink=#006688> <center><font size=+3>Fairy Stories and Anecdotes</font></center><p> <blockquote> <font size=+1><a name=changeling>Changelings</a></font><br> <a href=fairy_frog.html target="story">The Fairy Frog</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=fairy_child.html target="story">The Fairy Child</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=changeling.html target="story">Stolen by the Tylwyth Teg</a> (Wales)<br> <a href=johnnie.html target="story">Johnnie in the Cradle</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=fairy_wiles.html target="story">Fairy Wiles</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=elves3.html target="story">Elfin Changeling Revealed</a> (Germany)<br> <a href="changeling2.html" target="story">Swedish Changeling Tales</a> (Sweden)<br> <a href=take_him.html target="story">Let us take him!</a> (Iceland)<br> <a href=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/gerchange.html target="_top">German Changeling Legends</a><br> <a href=http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html target="_top">British Changeling Legends</a><br> <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/scanchange.html" target="_top">Scandinavian Changeling Legends</a><br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=kidnapping>Fairy Kidnappings</a></font><br> <a href="http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~darsie/mfff.html" target="_top"> The Mountain Fair and the Fountain Fairy</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=water_nix.html target="story">The Water Nix</a> (Germany)<br> <a href=nix_dancing.html target="story">Dancing with the Water Nix</a> (Germany)<br> <a href=marriage.html target="story">The Second Marriage</a> (Ulster, Ireland)<br> <a href=finvarra.html target="story">The Legend of Finvarra</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=kirk.html target="story">Robert Kirk in the Fairy Hill</a> (Scotland)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=help>Fairy Labourers</a></font><br> <a href=harvest.html target="story">The Tusse Folk Help with the Harvest</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=molly.html target="story">Lazy Molly</a> (Devon)<br> <a href=thresher.html target="story">The Fairy Thresher</a> (Cornwall)<br> <a href=elves.html target="story">The Elves and the Shoemaker</a> (Germany)<br> <a href=the_phouka.html target="story">The Phouka</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=king.html target="story">The King of the Fairies</a> (Lancashire)<br> <a href=ploughboy.html target="story">The Ploughboy and the Fairy Feast</a> (Galway, Ireland)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=sidhe>Tales of the Ancient Sidhe</a></font><br> <a href=edain.html target="story">Edain the Queen</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=ethna.html target="story">Ethna the Bride</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=Einion_Las.html target="story">Einion Las and the Fair Family</a> (Wales)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=origin>Fairy Origins</a></font><br> <a href=fallen_angels.html target="story">The Fairies as Fallen Angels</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=origin.html target="story">The Children of Adam and Lillith</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=origin2.html target="story">The Hidden Children of Eve</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=origin3.html target="story">The Angels Which Followed Neither Side</a> (Iceland)<br> <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/originunder.html" target="_top">The Origin of the Underground People</a> (Iceland)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=fairyland>Visits to Fairyland</a></font><br> <a href=roland.html target="story">Childe Roland</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=jefferies.html target="story">Anne Jefferies and the Fairies</a> (Devon)<br> <a href=thomas.html target="story">Thomas the Rhymer</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=piper.html target="story">The Piper of Glendevon</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=elves2.html target="story">Godmother to Fairies</a> (Germany)<br> <a href=gopher://leapfrog.almac.co.uk/00/scotland/dalriada/myths/scottish/cnoc>Cnoc an t-Sithean - The Fairy Knoll</a> (Scotland) <br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=dancing>Fairy Dancing</a></font><br> <a href=dancing2.html target="story">The Girl Who Danced Among the Sidhe</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=dancing.html target="story">Fairies Dancing on the Hillock</a> (Scotland)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=music>Fairy Music</a></font><br> <a href=knockgrafton.html target="story">The Legend of Knockgrafton</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=faerie_music.html target="story">Faerie Music</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=puca.html target="story">The Piper and the Puca</a> (Ireland)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=magic>Fairy Magic</a></font><br> <a href=ointment.html target="story">Fairy Ointment</a> (Cornwall)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=lovers>Fairy Lovers</a></font><br> <a href=gwraig.html target="story">The Gwraig and the Three Blows</a> (Wales)<br> <a href=seal.html target="story">The Seal Woman</a><br>  <a href=bride.html target="story">Marriage to a Tylwyth Teg</a> (Wales)<br> <a href=woodsprite.html target="story">Married to a Wood Sprite</a> (Sweden)<br> <a href=outrun.html target="story">Outrunning a Hulder</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=wedding.html target="story">A Hulder Wedding Interrupted</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=elfking.html target="story">The Girl and the Elf King</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=sprite.html target="story">Sleeping with a Forest Sprite</a> (Sweden)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=food>Fairy Food</a></font><br> <a href=food.html target="story">Food from the Mountain Huldre</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=food2.html target="story">Food from the Huldre at Ellefstad</a> (Norway)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=trickery>Fairy Trickery</a></font><br> <a href=kow.html target="story">The Hedley Kow</a> (Northumberland)<br> <a href=shellycoat.html target="story">Shellycoat the Bogle</a> (Shetlands)<br> <a href=boggart.html target="story">The Boggart</a> (Yorkshire)<br> <a href=grig.html target="story">The Grig's Red Cap</a> (Middlesex)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=outsmarting>Outsmarting the Fairies</a></font><br> <a href=shift.html target="story">The Old Woman who turned her Shift</a> (Devon)<br> <a href=own_self.html target="story">My Own Self</a> (England)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=mermaids>Mermaids and Tales of the Sea</a></font><br> <a href=sea-morgan.html target="story">The Sea-Morgan's Baby</a> (Somerset)<br> <a href=mermaid.html target="story">A Mermaid Anecdote</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=asrai.html target="story">The Asrai</a> (Shropshire)<br> <a href=gopher://leapfrog.almac.co.uk/00/scotland/dalriada/myths/scottish/lure target="_top">The Lure of the Kelpie</a> (Scotland) <br> <a href=water-horse.html target="story">The Nykur</a> (Iceland)<br> <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/water.html" target="_top">Water Spirit Legends</a> (Europe)<br> <p> <p> <font size=+1><a name=hunt>The Wild Hunt</a></font><br> <a href=oskorei.html target="_story">The Oskorei</a> (Norway)<br> <p> <font size=+1><a name=misc>Miscellaneous</a></font><br> <img src="../../images/new.gif" alt="*NEW*"> <a href="New_England.html" target="story">The Fairies Who Didn't Stay</a> (New Hampshire, America)<br> <a href="forsaken.html" target="story">The Forsaken Fairy</a> (Scottish Lowlands) <Br> <a href=trow.html target="story">The Golden-Haired Girl of Unst</a> (Shetland Islands)<br> <a href=Dartmoor_Pixies.html target="story">The Pixies of Dartmoor</a> (Cornwall)<br> <a href=leprehaun.html target="story">The Leprahaun</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=green_children.html target="story">The Green Children</a> (Suffolk)<br> <a href=vixen.html target="story">The Oakmen and the Vixen</a> (Cumberland)<br> <a href="fairy_prince.html" target="story">The Fairy Prince</a> (London)<br> <a href=pussycat.html target="story">Look at the Pussycat</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=sidhe_race.html target="story">Description of the Sidhe Race</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=salvation.html target="story">Propects of Salvation among the Huldre</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=dwarfs.html target="story">Various Stories of Departures of Dwarfs</a> (Germany)<br> <a href=fairy_nature.html target="story">The Nature of the Sidhe</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=edenhall.html target="story">The Luck of Edenhall</a> (Scotland)<br> <a href=fairy_doctors.html target="story">Fairy Doctors</a> (Ireland)<br> <a href=christmas.html target="story">The Huldre-folk Tell the Date</a> (Norway)<br> <a href=oak.html target=story>The Fairy in the Oak</a> (Fictional, Beatrix Potter)<br> <p> <font size=+1>Links to Stories Elsewhere</font> <a href="http://www.mcinnes.demon.co.uk/folklore/Stories/index.htm">Stories of the Fae</a><br> <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html">British Changeling Legends</a><br> <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0503.html">Fairy Gifts</a><br> </blockquote> <center> <img src="/~earendil/images/flower.gif" alt="---"> <br> <a href="/~earendil/faerie/index.html">HOME</a> § <a href="/~earendil/faerie/Story">TALES AND STORIES</a> § <a href="/~earendil/faerie/poems">POEMS</a> § <a href="/~earendil/faerie/bin/search.cgi">DICTIONARY</a> <br> <a href="/~earendil/faerie/Ballads">BALLADS</a> § <a href="/~earendil/faerie/Art">ART</a> § <a href="/~earendil/faerie/NewLinks.html">WEB RESOURCES</a> § <a 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