The Blessed of the Night

Të Lumet Natë

Night fairies under a blessed gentler name — infant swap and sweat-soaked horses.

Description

Night fairies under a gentler name. Tirta 2004 p. 134: Të Lumet Natë — a polite name used to avoid offense; appear as misty women also called Zanat, Orët, Fatet, Fatmirat; take sleeping infants, play/toss them (sometimes injure), return or swap them; night-crying child believed swapped; take horses overnight and return them sweat-soaked/sick. Also called zana, orë, fate names in some tellings; they take sleeping infants and return horses sweat-soaked.

Features

  • infant borrow/swap/injury (Tirta)
  • night horse-riding to sweat (Tirta)

Lead story

They call them Blessed so the night will not take offense. Infants shift in the cradle; horses come back wet with a work no one rode. Tirta keeps the infant/horse block under this gentler name.

Aliases

Të Lumet Natë · Të Lumet · Te Lumet Nate

Region

Tirta night-fairy ethnography (gentler names shared with Zana/Ora/Fate figures)

Relations

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