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Keywords:
Nature, superstition, illusion
Description of this motif: Elves are in Andersen's oeuvre best known from the fairy tale "The Elf Mound", but are also represented in other tales, often as a part of supernatural sceneries.
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)
- 4 The Elf Mound (1845)
- 2 The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (1865)
- 1 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
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