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* [[Ur Example]]: This nasty trick likely originated with [[The Fair Folk]]. Usually, the hero is lured into the fairy mound, where he dances the night away. When he emerges from the mound, he finds that many years have passed (from 10 to 100). Sometimes he instantly ages or dies.
* The Japanese folktale of ''Kentaro Urashima'' involves the title character going to a kingdom under the sea, and when he goes back home, 100 years have passed.
** In at least one version, he's given a box when he leaves the kingdom and warned never to open it. When he does, he gets all the years of age that he's missed.
* In the legend of True Thomas, also known as [[Thomas the Rhymer]], the hero must serve in the Fairy Queen's realm for seven years. When he comes back out to his side of the veil, everyone he ever knew is long dead.
* Another ancient legend of China retold is the story of a fisherman who finds himself in the Chinese Faerie kingdom and marries the queen there.
* Occurs in the legends of the Czech mountain Blaník, e.g. a blacksmith who worked for the [[King in the Mountain|sleeping knights]] for a day found out after returning that a year has passed.
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