Other Uses
Fairy ointment also appears in many other fairy tales and books of fantasy, usually as a method for seeing through a fairy's magic. For example, in Eloise McGraw's The Moorchild, the protagonists enter a fairy hill in search of a stolen child, but are confused and hypnotized by the fairies' glamour until they smear their eyes with stolen fairy ointment. These tales, of the fairy or magic ointment, come under type: ML 5070 "Midwife to the fairies" (see also The Queen of Elfan's Nourice) It is Aarne-Thompson type 476*.
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