fairy-dart

Updated: May 29, 2025

"He's struck with a fairy-dart," exclaimed all the friends, and they carried him home and nursed him; but his face grew so thin and his manner so morose that by and by all began to suspect that the true Rickard was gone and a changeling put in his place.

John Fiske - Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology