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A

Aaron, The rod of, 204

Abbott, G. F., 21

Abel, The burial of, 178

Abner and David, 358

Abraham, 319

Achish and David, 358

Adam, Language of, 13;
and Eve, 79;
and the burial of Abel, 178;
and Eve and the devil, 210;
and the cat and dog, 361

Æsop, 29;
“Life” of, 30;
transmission of Æsopian fables, 31

Afanasiev’s Russian Tales, 22, 195, 293, 326, 331

Ahikar, The story of, 29–31;
Rumanian version of, 355

Alans, 15

Alaric, King, 43, 45

Albanians, 15, 18

Albigenses, The, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 123

Alexander the Great, 57, 125;
and the knight (cricket), 207;
and the two brothers, 284;
destroys the dog-men, 285;
his conquests, 285;
Romance of, 286;
“Letter to Aristotle,” 286

Allegorical use of animal tales, 31

“Alphabet of Ben Sira, or Pseudo Sirach,” 209, 213, 357

Amazons, 285

Amber, Fly in, simile for transmission of folk-tales, 37

Ambrose, St., of Milan, and the Ambrosian chant, 48

Anadan, 355

Andersen, Hans C., 35

Angelic sparks, i.e. glow-worms.
See Glow-worms.

Angels, The fall of the, 38, 39;
among men, 73;
become stars, 74;
the angel in love, 74, 78;
St. Peter casts out the little devil, 75;
angels who refused to help St. Elias (bull-flies), 103

Angromainya, 27

Animals, Man and, relations between, 2;
as disguised human beings, 2, 23;
animals humanised, 2, 28;
substitution of local animals in stories, 6, 12;
not humanised in Rumanian fables, 28;
incantations against animal illnesses, 348

Animism, 2

Anne, St., and the magician, 203

Ant, The, Origin of, and why it is cut in the middle, 283;
the grandchild of God, 283;
protected by the Virgin, 283;
the red ant the Virgin’s tears, 283;
remedy against toothache, 283

Ants, The, and the cricket, 207

Ape, The, and the dog, 361.
See Monkey

Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, etc., 25

Apollo, 244

Apostles, The, 39;
on earth, 76;
and St. Peter, 130

Apples, Worms in, 122

Arabians feed Elijah, 280

Arabic literature, Animal tales in, 31;
the raven in, 279

Arianism and Manichaeism, 41;
and the Goths, 41–43;
and the Bible, etc., in the vernacular, 44;
and the Catholic Church, 45;
Gothic, 48;
and the Greek Church, 51

Arius and religious minstrelsy, 47

Arkir, Stories from, 355

Armenian, The, and the hoopoe, 288

Armenians, 15

Arnica, 283

Asia Minor, 10, 30

Asiatic folk-lore, 2

Ass, The, lion frightened by, 331;
length and manner of life, 336;
why he mixes his water, 360

Autos-da-fÉ, 45

Avesta, The, 26;
the bull in the, 96

Avianus, 32

B

Babrius, 32

Balkans, Races of the, 15;
animal tales and the, 36, 38;
the Goths in the, 42;
the Slavs, 43;
the Bulgars, 44;
heretical sects in the, 52

Barlaam legend, 6, 16, 25

Basil, The Hexameron of, 28

Basile, St., 257

Bear, The, and the tom cat, 333

Bear, The Great (constellation), 80

Bee, The, 25, 38;
“the Bee and Creation,” 27;
outwits the Devil, 63, 71, 72;
becomes black, 63, 71;
becomes narrow waisted, 64, 71;
gives honey and wax, 64;
given its sting, 64;
the mole and, 65;
outwits the mole, 67;
feeds on itself, 68;
the brick-carrier daughter, 70;
made first, 135;
stolen by the Gipsy, 135;
belongs to the Rumanians, 136, 137;
God’s blessing on, 138

Beetle, Nun, 132, 134

Beetles, Horned, 102;
red beetles, 107, 108

“Belief” in fairy tales, 3

Beliefs, Ancient, in folk-tales, 37, 39

Ben Sira, Hebrew alphabet of, Animal stories from, 357

Benfey, Pantschatantra, 324, 326.
See Panchatantra

Benjamin, Bishop, of Moldavia, 120

Berachya, 32

Bible, The, in the vernacular, Arians, 44;
the Cathars, 47;
forbidden by the Catholic Church, 47

Biblical legends, 57, 278, 319

Bird of heaven, The, 256

Birds, The king of the, 151;
singing of the, 151;
the colouring of the, 148, 156;
the king of the (wren), 300;
(eagle), 302;
and the sparrow-hawk, 303;
accuse man, 339;
plead for man, 340

Black One, The, 241

Black Sea, The, 247, 248

Blackbird, The, 151

“Bluebeard” 34;
Bluebeard story parallel, 261

Bogomilism, 25, 26, 31, 36, 44;
in Rumania, 52;
in Russia, 53

Bogomils, 50, 51

Boris, King, 44

Bosnia, 46, 52

Broadside, Political animal, 33

Brick-carrier daughter, The (bee), 69

Bubureaza, 113

Buddha, 25

Buddhist teaching of metempsychosis, 23

Buffalo, The, and the gnat, 310;
race with the hare, 315;
walks slowly and treads lightly, 316

Bugs, Charms against, 223

Bukovina, 58;
Bukovina peasants and beetles to produce milk, 109

Bulgaria, Survivals in, 10;
the saints in, 40;
Bogomilism and, 51;
creation stories, 65

Bulgaro-Vallachian kingdom, 51

Bulgars, 15;
Tartarian language of the, 18;
in the Balkans, 44;
Christianity among, 44;
unity with Rumanians, 51

Bull, The, in the Avesta, 96

Bullfinch, The origin of the, 158

Bull-fly, The, 102

Bulls or cows of the Lord, 103, 107, 109

Burgundy, Arianism in, 43

Bush, The wonderful, and the cuckoo, 164

Butterflies with the sign of St. Anne’s ring, 203

Byzance, 31, 51, 53

Byzantine myths, 12

C

Cain, Children of, 139

Calf, The “wise,” 275;
charm for a suckling calf, 350

Cannibal innkeeper, The, 259

Car, The Great (Great Bear), 80

Cards, Playing, The gipsies and, 24

Carnation, The, as test of sex, 282

Carpenters, The, and the Cross, 184, 190

Carpocapsa pomonella, 123

Cat, The, the animal of the devil, 123;
enmity with the dog and mouse, 208, 209, 360;
eats the devil as mouse, 212, 214;
basks in the sun on the doorstep, 214;
as priest (popa), 312;
the tom cat and the vixen, 332;
fights the wolf, etc., 334;
and the carcase of the horse, 335;
and man, 339;
why it eats mice, 359;
why he does not recognize his master, 362;
and the mouse in the ark, 363

Cathars, The, 26, 31, 41, 45, 46, 50, 52, 54, 123

Catholic Church and Arianism, 45;
and the Bible, 47;
and Mariolatry, 49;
and persecution of heretics, 53

Catholic countries, The saints in, 40

Ceremonies and customs, 36

Cerna, 117

Charles II., 55

Charms, 58;
bull-flies’ horns against evil eye, 103;
saw-fly, to obtain abundant milk, 109;
hornets to make a dog savage, 140;
crow water for philtres, 175;
children’s teeth and crows, 175;
against the mole wart, 179;
the Lady Mary, mouse, and spider, 186;
against the sparrow, 197;
insect egg ring, 204;
against fleas, etc., 221;
generally, 222;
against bugs, 223;
against the illness of animals, 348–354

Charon, 21, 244

Cherries, Lady Mary and the, 202

Children in the wood, 225

Christ, 39;
and the goat’s knees, 88;
and the thrush, 153;
curses the sparrows, 195;
and the yellow bird, 205.
See also Jesus

Christian, The first, executed for heresy by Christians, 46

Christian tales, Apocryphal, 344

Christianity and the unity of folk-lore, 11;
and ancient myths, 12;
the Goths and, 42;
in Rumania, 52

Christians and the heathen, 130

Christmas, Old (person), 346

Christmas carols, Mystical, 57;
the shepherd and the sheep (God and the lamb), 94;
the hart and the making of the world, 95;
the devil stealing the sun, 99;
the wooing of the sister of the sun, 245;
the sun legend in, 246;
the wooing of a fairy, 247;
the swan maiden, 256;
the Lord’s justice, 346

Christophorus, 287

Church, Animal satires and the, 32

Churches, Eastern and Western, The division between, 44

“Cinderella,” 34;
Cinderella story variant, 275

Civilization, The, of the near East, 56

Clergy, Satire of, in animal tales, 32

Cloot, Pierre, 33

Clouds, The, and the rat, 318

Clovis, King, 43, 45

Coccinella septempundata, 113

Cock Robin cycle, 55

Colouring, The, of animals, 148, 156

Comparisons in folk-lore, Haphazard, 12

Constantinople, 52;
evergreen oak in, 88

Continuity in folk-tales, 10, 15, 16

Conybeare, Prof., 30

Cosmogonic legends, 26, 38

Cosquin’s Tales, 57, 258, 266

Cossack Tales (Bain), 335

Cow, Charm for a, against the evil eye, 350;
against snakebite, 351;
called by the names of days, 350 n.

Cow-fly, The, 102

Cowherd, The rude, and the gad-fly, 114, 116

Cox, Miss, Cinderella, 34

Creation, Conception of, 39

Creation of man, 38

“Creation” tales, 1, 4, 22, 34, 35, 57;
their date, 27;
in Russia, 53

Cricket, The, origin, 205, 206, 207

Cricket, The little, 107

Crow, The, the ugliness of fledglings, 170, 172;
the hawk as godmother, 172;
hatred of the hawk, 174;
crow charms, 175;
tom cat and the, 334

Crown of paradise, The, 256

Crucifixion, The, 184, 190, 195

Crusades, The, 41

Cuckoo, The legend of the, 49;
steals St. Peter’s horses, 77;
and glow-worms, 77;
Ballad of the knight and the dragon, 117;
and the hoopoe, 162, 164;
its origin, 164;
and the wonderful bush, 164;
headman, judge, and emperor, 165;
and a palace for the goldfinch, 168;
silent in winter, 169;
why it says “cuckoo,” 226, 286;
lends its tuft to the hoopoe, 229;
captain of Alexander’s army, 285;
his Amazon wife, 286;
and the Armenian, 288;
pleads for man, 340

“Cuckoo’s ring”, 204

Culex pipiens, 199

“Culture,” 2

Cumans, 15, 18

Cunning of the weaker animals, 22

Czechs, 22

Dacian survivals, 10

Dacians, 15

DÄhnhardt (Oskar) Natursagen named, 26, 27, 65, 72, 83, 84, 87, 88

Dalmatia, 46, 52

Danube, The, 120

Days as divinities, 274

Death, The angel of, 365

Demon husband, The, 267, 282

Devil, The, belief in, 38;
Rumanians and the, 40;
and the seed of the earth, 61;
and the bee, 63, 71;
and the sun, 71;
the fall of, 78;
makes the wolf, 79, 82;
and the car, the mill, and fire, 80;
power of the wolf over, 80;
the hairs of the wolf, 80, 81, 82, 83;
fires the eyes of the wolf, 81, 82;
becomes a wolf, 84;
ate by the wolf, 85;
goats and his fire, 86;
creates the goat, 88;
depicted with goat’s horns and hoof, 89;
helps Noah to plant the vine, 92;
strife with God, 97, 100;
St. George leads against, 97;
loses Paradise, 98;
stealing the sun, 99;
and the clever men, 122;
and Eve, 210, 213, 219;
as snake, 211;
as mouse, 211, 213, 214;
contract with God for the dead, 216;
and the St. Peter’s foot, 217;
and the Archangel Michael’s foot, 217

Devil worship.
See Dualism

Devil’s daughter as nun, 134

Devil’s horse, The (dragon-fly), 97

Dib-dib, The, 331

Dionysios, St., 92

Dog, The, and the wolf, 79;
enmity with the cat, 208, 209;
three-headed, 242;
two-headed, 243;
the magic dog and the demon, 267;
with a headache and the snake, 327;
challenges the wolf, 335;
length and manner of life, 337;
and man, 339;
why it fights the cat, 360

Dog-headed people, 284;
saint, 287

Dogma, 38

Dogs and cats, Men changed into, 122

Dogs, St. Peter’s.
See Wolf, The

Doomsday, 85

Dositheus, Archbishop, 120

Dove, The, in legendary tales, 275;
the three white doves, 276;
its origin, 277;
the raven imitates its walk, 363.
See also Turtle dove

Dragon, The, of Cerna, 118

Dragon-fly, The (devil’s horse), 97

Drunkenness, Animal characteristics, 92, 93

Dualism, 25, 36, 38, 39, 49;
Iranian, 26;
in Russia, 53;
and devil worship, 54, 55

Duck, The, The girl who becomes a duck, 261;
why ducks are fat and feed on refuse, 261;
the wild duck accuses man, 339

E

Eagle, The, 139;
greedy brothers changed to eagles, 231;
the spell under which it is a bird of prey, 234;
and the wren, 300;
as king of the birds, 302

Earth, God and the making of the, 62, 65, 67;
the ends of the, 232

Easter beetle, 107

Easter eggs and orchard worms, 123

Eastern and Western civilization, 56

Eastern Church and persecution, of Hellenism and paganism, 50;
and heretical sects, 52;
and saint with a dog’s head, 286

Ebionite conception of Jesus, 48

Education and the destruction of folk-lore, 55

Egypt, 30

Egyptian ideas of the passage of the soul, 344

Egyptian influences, 23

Elephantine, The Papyri of, 29

Eliezer, Chapters of, 178

Elijah.
See Ilie

Emperor, The, and God, 126

Enchantments.
See Charms

Enoch, Book of, 39

Europe, Animal stories of, 2

European folk-lore, Animal tales the earlier stages of, 3, 8

European languages, 13

European nations a spiritual unit, 2;
their antiquity and character, 11

Eutemias Zygabenos, 51

Eve and the devil, 210, 213, 219

Evil, Origin of, 110

Evil eye, Charms against the, 103, 348, 349, 350, 351

Evil One, Evil creations of, 49

Evil Spirit, The, 22, 25, 26.
See also Devil

F

Fables, Animal, 1, 4, 22, 28, 29, 57

Fairy, The wooing of a, 247

Fairy tales, 1;
belief in, 3;
world-wide range of, 4;
migration and transmission, 4;
connection of animal tales, 33;
reason and meaning, 34;
their primitiveness, 35;
similarity of, 35

Fates, 274

Fathers, The Christian, and the Physiologus, 28

Fauns, 89

Fenrir, 84

Finch, Thistle, and ruffled feathers, 156

Fire, The Devil and, 80, 86, 87

Fish, The, and his seven wings, 182;
and the ring, 271

Flea, The, and the gnat, 306

Fleas, Origin of, 219;
the devil’s horse, 220;
charms against, 221

Flies on the dead, 215;
which live only one day, 357

Flint, The, and sparks, 87

Flood, The, 90

Floria and the king of the storks, 263

Flower under pillow to test sex, 267, 282

Flute, The magic, 251

Folk-lore, Problems, 1;
haphazard comparisons, 12;
analogy with comparative philology, 14, 16;
its investigation, 14;
survivals, 9, 12, 15, 16, 36;
concentric investigation, 19;
written and oral, 20;
a product of peaceful times, 24;
Western European, 54;
of the nearer East, 55;
and the “man of science,” 55;
and education, 55;
and the heresy hunter, 56

Foot, Origin of instep, 215;
why it is arched, 217

Foreign elements in languages, 17 et seq.

Fox, The, the “clever” outwitted, 22;
fox fables in Jewish literature, 28;
the partridge and the hound, 290;
becomes monk, 313;
seven-witted, 320;
and the hedgehog, 322, 323;
and the leopard, 331;
the vixen and the tom cat, 332;
not among the creatures of the sea, 365;
beguiles the fishes about his heart, 367

France, The Goths in, 41

French Reynard cycle, 33

Frere, Mary, 28

Friars, The mendicant, 41

Frog, The, and the Lady Mary, 190;
King Log and King Stork, 304;
and the hare, 314

G

Gabriel, The Archangel, 99, 101, 104;
wager with Voinic, 105

Gad-fly, The, and the cattle, 114, 116

Gaster, M., Chrestomatie Romana, 58;
Exempla of the Rabbis, 126;
Literatura Populara RomÂna, 204, 348;
Chronicles of Jerahmeel, 319

Genoese and Venetian traders and St. George, 120

George, St., and the dragon legend, 16, 98, 101;
fights the devil, 97;
his horse, 97;
and the dragon, variant, 120

George, St., Life of, 120

Ghirosana, Ana, 117

Giants, The, 90;
destruction of the, 215

Gimlet, The, 218

Gion, 287

Gipsies, 15, 17;
and transmission of folk-tales, 24;
as villain and fool, 24;
and the bee and wasp 135, 137;
greed of, 161;
and the nails for the Crucifixion, 190

Gipsies’ bird, The (wagtail), 161

Gipsy, The, and the swan queen, 249

Giurgiu, 121

Glass mountain, 237, 241

Glove, The fur, becomes a cat, 212, 213, 214

Glow-worms, 25, 38;
angelic sparks, 39, 74, 75;
light St. Peter’s way, 77;
and the cuckoo, 77

Gnat, The, and the flea, 306;
and the lion, 307;
and the buffalo, 310

“Gnat and the Lion, The,” 22

Gnostic legends, 25, 48

Gnosticism, 39, 51

Goat, with wings, 86;
tries to steal God’s fire, 86;
why its knees are bare, 86, 88;
devil’s beast, 87, 88;
God gives it life, 87, 88;
its intelligence, 87;
without tail, 88;
with the devil’s eyes, 89;
the goat-devil in popular belief, etc., 89;
Noah and the, 90;
leads Noah to discover the vine, 90

Goat’s knees, The, 27

God, 26, 38, 39, 48;
and the sun, 71;
makes the dog, 79;
and the devil, 79–81;
gives life to the wolf, 80, 82, 83, 85;
and the devil’s fire, 86, 87;
and the lamb (carol), 94;
strife with the devil, 97, 100;
his herds and flocks (the bull-fly), 102;
and the rude cowherd, 114, 116;
and the polite shepherd, 115, 116;
and the false teachers, 122;
and the young animals and birds, 170;
and young crows, 170;
and the old woman who became a tortoise, 180;
and the mosquito’s food, 200;
allots the span and manner of life, 336;
rewards the good man, 346;
and the angel of death, 365

Goddesses of fate, 21

“God’s hens” (swallows), 274

Gods, The heathen, rob Paradise, 99

Goldfinch, The, elected king of birds, 168;
and the cuckoo, 169

Gonzenbach’s Tales, 57

Goths, 15;
Arianism, 41, 43;
their kingdom, 41;
their original home and migration, 42;
adopt Christianity, 42;
their conquests, 43;
conversion of rulers to Catholicism, 43;
beliefs and practices, 43;
and the Teutonic language, 45;
and the dissemination of heretical myths, 49

Grape vine, The.
See Vine

Grasshopper, The mower, 127;
origin of, 129

Greece, Bogomilism in, 51

Greek Church.
See Eastern Church

Greek folk-lore, 50

Greek, Modern, folk-lore, 20, 21

Greek mythology, 244

Greek myths, 12

Greeks, 15

Grimm’s Tales, 49, 57, 88, 167, 178, 235, 293, 309, 324, 331

H

Haemus, Mount, 42

Hahn, J. G. von, Albn. MÄrchen, 21, 57, 78, 85, 93, 313, 324, 326

Haltrich’s Transylvanian Tales (VolksmÄrchen), 22, 293, 309, 335

Hanauer, Folk Lore of the Holy Land, 219, 230, 331

Hare, The, and the frogs, 314;
race with the buffalo, 315;
and the pointer and setter, 317;
and the tom cat, 333

Harris, J. Rendel, 30;
Story of Ahikar, 356

Hart, The, and the making of the world (carol), 95

Hawk, The, and the young crows, 172;
hatred of the crow, 174

Heaven and hell, 111

Hebrew and the origin of languages, 13

Hedgehog, 64;
and the fox, 322, 323

Helias, 101

Hell, Creation of, 111

“Hell, The Harrowing of,” 101

Heresy and the Reynard cycle, 33;
of the tales, 39

Heresy-hunting in Greek Church, 50;
as a popular distraction, 55

Heretical myths, The Goths and, 49

Hero tales, 57

Heron, The, and the digging of wells, 176

Hesperides, The golden apples of, 248

Hills, The creation of, 65

Homiliary, The, 120

Hoopoe, The legend of the, 49;
and its greed, 160, 164;
and the cuckoo, 162, 164;
its ambition, 162, 166;
borrows the cuckoo’s tuft, 229;
Solomon’s gift of the tuft, 230;
and the Armenian’s horse, 288;
beliefs attached to its cry, 289

Hornet, The, curse on, 138, 139;
charm to make dogs savage, 140;
nest as sign of winter season, 140

Horse of St. George, 98

Horse, The, of the Sultan, 329

Horses, St. Peter’s, 76

Hound, The, and the fox, 290

Hungarian language, 18

Hungarians, 15

Huns, 15

Husband, The, under a spell, 237

Hymns, Greek (or Syriac), 48

Hypoderma bovis, 115

Ialdabaoth, 48

Iana, sister of the Sun, 245

Iblis, 219

Ileana Cosinziana and Voinic, 104

Ilie, St. (Elijah), 99, 101, 103, 279

Illyricum, 41, 50

Incantations.
See Charms

Indian fables, 29

Indian literature, Animal tales in, 28

Indices Expurgatoria, 52, 53

Indo-European languages, 14

Innkeeper, The brutish, becomes a bullfinch, 158;
the cannibal, 259

Inquisition, The, 42, 89, 123;
and destruction of legends and tales, 54;
and sorcery, 55

Instep of foot, Origin of, 215

Ion Creanga, 58

Iorgovan, Ioan, the knight, 118, 121

Iran, 26

Italy, Survivals in, 10;
and saints, 40;
the Goths in, 41

J

Jerahmeel, Chronicles of, 78

Jesus, Ebionite idea of, 48;
birth of, 108;
and the giant mower, 127

Jewish literature, Fox fables in, 28

John, St., 99, 184, 257, 346

Josaphat, 25

Joseph, St., 127

Joshua and the ox, 359

“Judgment of the Animals,” 31

Judgment, The, of the soul of man, 339

Judgment, The throne of, stolen, 99

K

Kalila and Dimna, 6, 330

Ketzer, 41

Kieff, 25

King god, Annual, The slaying of, 10

King Log and King Stork, 304

King of all the birds, 238

Kite, The, and the digging for water, 178

Knight, The, and the dragon (ballad), 117

Kolumbatsch, The poison-fly of, 117

Krauss, Friedrich S., South Slavonic Tales, 22, 88, 209, 293, 308, 323, 330, 334

Kutzo-Vlachs of Macedonia, 58, 193

Kynokephaloi, 286

L

Lady-bird, The, 113

La Fontaine’s Fables, 312

Lamb, The wolf and the, 27;
and the goat, 87

Language, National, 13

Lark, The, wedding, 228, 229;
how it got its tuft, 236;
why the tuft is dishevelled, 238;
its origin (Little Light), 240, 243;
and the ploughman’s wife, 296

Legend or creation stories, 4

Legends, Adaptation of, 143

Leopard, The, and the fox, 331

Ler, 245

Letts, 22;
creation stories, 65

Leviathan, 366

Life allotted to man and animals, 336

Light, Little, 240

Lightning, 66

Lion, The, Blood of, to water the vine, 92;
bone of, for vine, 93;
in his castle, 232;
and the gnat, 307;
and the tiger, 308;
and the Sultan’s horse, 329;
and the ass, 331;
and the tom cat, 333

Lithuanians, 22

“Little horse” (locust), 127

“Little master” (thistle-finch), 157

Locust, Mower (Locusta viridissima), 128

Locusts, Plague of, 125

Loki, the God of Fire, 84

Lombards, The, 43, 45

Lot and Abraham, 204

Lucanus cervus (bull-fly), 103

Lucidaria, 52

Lygaeus equestris, 107

M

Macedonia, Bird tales in, 20;
tales from, 58

Magic, The Gipsies and, 24

Magpie, The, aids the devil, 216

Maiden, The wicked, and the Archangel Michael, 111

Man and animals, Relation between, 2;
and his years taken over from animals, 336;
and his good and evil angels, 339;
his treatment of the animals recorded for and against his soul, 339;
the pilgrimage of the soul, 341;
the reward of the good man, 346

Mangiuca, S., 58

Manichaean teaching in Russia, 53

Manichaeism, 25, 26, 31, 36, 41, 44, 48, 51

Mantissa religiosa, 132, 134

Marian, S. Fl., Ornitologia and Insectele, 58

Marie de France, 32

Mariolatry, 49

Mary, the Virgin, 39;
and the gift of milk, 108;
and the “mower,” 129;
curses the plover, 183;
curses the spider, 184, 185;
search for her Son, 184, 190;
blesses the swallows, 185;
curses the mouse, 185;
mourning after the crucifixion, 186;
turns the mother-in-law into a swallow, 188;
and the frog, 190;
and the tortoise, 192, 193, 194;
and the silkworm, 193;
and the Emperor Pic, 199;
and the cherries, 202;
and the little yellow bird, 205;
at the fountain, 343;
the willow tree, 344;
helps the beasts, 349

“Metamorphoses” in Greek mythology, 21

Metempsychosis, 23, 25, 49

Michael, Archangel, 99, 101, 110;
and the wicked maiden, 111;
loses part of the sole of his foot, 217

Midrash Abkhir, 92

Migration of folk tales, 4, 6, 7

Milham, The bird, 365

Milk, The Holy Mother and the gift of, 108;
beetles as food to produce milk, 109

Mill, The devil and the, 80

Miracles, 204

Mithras, The bull of, 96

Mohammedans, Heretics become, 46;
Cathars become, 52

“Moirai,” 21, 274

Mole, The, and the making of the earth, 65, 67;
outwitted by the bee, 68;
why it lives underground, 68;
its hills and burrows, 179

Mongol invasion, Influence of, 23–27

Monkey, The, Length and manner of life of, 337.
See Ape

Moon, The Sun and, 72;
stolen, 99;
the new, and a charm against bugs, 224;
slanders the Sun, 359

Moral character of the stories, 58

“Morals” to animal tales, 1, 8, 28, 29

Mosquito, The, origin (Emperor Pic), 199;
a blood-sucker, 200;
the smoke of the devil’s pipe, 201;
as blood taster, 219

Mother-in-law, The wicked, becomes a swallow, 188

Mountains, The origin of, 66;
that knock one against the other, 263

Mouse, The, cursed by the Holy Mother, 185, 186;
enmity of cat against, 208, 209;
the devil as, 211, 214;
the town, and the field mouse, 311;
slanders the cat, 359;
why there is a seam in its mouth, 362

“Mower” (locust), 127, 129

Mugur, 285

Mummers, Fair of the, 221

Musca Columbaca, 118

Mythology, Heathen and Christian, 244

Myths, Ancient, Survival of, 12, 37

N

Nadan, 30

Naxia, 92

Neculea, The land of, 256

Nessus, The Shirt of, 299

New Testament, Animal tales and the, 30

Nica, the shepherd, 94

Nicaea, Council of, 42

Nicodemus, The Gospel of, 101

Nightingale, The colour of the, 148;
how it learned to sing, 149;
the best singer, 152;
tales of its origin, 152

Nimrod, 319

Noah and the animals in the ark, 90;
and the drunken goat, 90;
eats grapes and is drunk, 91;
recovers and kills the goat, 91;
Noah, the ark, and the devil, 213, 214, 218;
and the seam in the mouth of the mouse, 363;
and the raven, 364

Nornes, 274

Northern mythology, The raven in, 279

“Nun,” the messenger, 131

Nun beetle, The, 132, 134

O

Oak, The, and sparrow, 196

Oaks without leaves, 88

Occult practices and the Gipsies, 24

Ockley, Simon, 31

Odin, The ravens of, 279

Olt, The River, 95

Omens of the raven, 280

“Oral” literature, 19;
of Rumania, 52

Orchard worms, 123

Origins of folk tales, 5, 7, 36

Owl, The, and the wren, 301;
one-witted, 320

Ox, The, why it has no hair on its nose, 359

Oxen of the Lord, 109

P

Pachytylus migratorius, 125

Panchatantra, The, 6, 29, 324, 326, 330.
See Benfey

Pann, Anton, Proverbs and Tales, 29, 31, 58

Pannonia, 43

Paradise, Satan loses, 98;
the heathen gods rob, 99;
the gate of, 111;
the entry into, 286;
“Journey to Paradise,” 286;
flowers of, 343

Parallelism in folk tales, 6, 12

Parker, H., 28

Partridge, The, why she is mottled, 155;
the fox, and the hound, 290;
and her young, 294

Peacock, The, in sun myths, 245

Pelasgian survivals, 10

Pelasgians, 15, 18

Pelican, The, and its pouch, 145

“Perfecte,” 123

Persian Empire, 26

Petchenegs, 15

Peter and Asan, 51

Peter, St., and the fallen angel, 75;
his establishment and horses, 76;
horses stolen by the cuckoo, 77;
God and the Devil, 80;
Feast of, and the wolves, 81;
gets sparks inside the flint, 87;
The Devil stealing the sun (carol), 99;
God, St. Peter, and the lazy shepherd, 114;
and clever women, 131;
and the nun beetle, 132;
and vermin, 143;
and the boastful thrush, 153;
recovers the contract with the devil, 216;
sole of his foot injured, 217;
apple tree of, 343

Peter the Great, 55

Philology, Comparative, Analogy of, with folk-lore, 14, 16

Philomela and Halcyon, 21

Philtres, 175, 222

Physiologus, 27

Pic, The Emperor, the sun, and Lady Mary, 199

Pine, The, and the soul, 341

Planudes, 30

Plover, The, and Our Lady, 183

Pobres, 26

Pointer, The, 317

Poison-fly of Kolumbatsch, 117, 120

Poles, The, 22

Political animal broadsides, 33

Politis, N., 88

Polycrates, 272

Polyphemus, 262

“Popa” (priests), 125

Por, Emperor, 124

Porus, King, 125

Poultry, Charm against the illness of, 349

Prehistoric survivals, 10

Priests and nuns, The Emperor Por and, 124;
priests as locusts, 125

Priscillianites of Spain, 45, 49

Priscillianus, 46

Provence, 41

Proverbs, 29

Pumpkins, The titmouse and, 146

Q

“Questions and Answers” (Lucidaria), 52

R

Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 65, 178, 195, 213, 219

Rat, The, journeys to God, 318;
and the daughter of the sun, 318

Raven, The, 170;
croaking omen, 175;
and drought, 178;
and burial of Abel, 178;
of Noah’s ark, 278;
turns black and feeds on carcases, 279;
eggs hatched by frost, 279;
the bird of oracle, 279;
in mythology, 279;
Rumanian popular beliefs, 280;
a bird of ill-omen, 280;
the young of the, 357;
why it hops in its walk, 363;
why it mates differently, 364

Recared, 45, 47

Religious character of Rumanian animal tales, 1, 5;
religious beliefs, 3;
religious cause for unity of folk-lore, 11;
religious sectarians and use of animal tales, 31;
propaganda and popular rhymes, 47;
popular religious songs, 48

Reverence, Lack of, in the stories, 39

Reynard cycle, 54

Reynard the Fox, 8, 31;
and the clergy, 33

Ring, The, and the fish, 271

Roads and pathways, 179

Romans, 15

Rosebush, The, and the soul, 341

Royal Asiatic Society, Journal, 30, 356

Rumania, The saints in, 40

Rumanian animal tales, Characteristics of, 1;
religious character, 3;
the interest of their study, 4;
their two groups, 4;
similarity with those of other nations, 6;
their origins, 7, 17, 36;
their survival, 9;
parallels, 20;
fables not found among the, 23;
not local, survivals, or isolated, 23;
their source, 25, 26;
fables not “humanised,” 28;
their moral nature, 58;
syncretism, 59

Rumanian language, Slavonic in, 17, 18;
and the gipsies, 17;
of Latin origin, 17;
purity of, 17;
elements of other languages in, 18;
no old Teutonic words in, 50

Rumanian peasantry, Superstitions of, 55

Rumanian Popular Literature, History of, 30.
See Gaster

Rumanians of Latin origin, 10;
how long in Rumania, 50;
unity with the Bulgarians, 51;
and the wasp and bee, 135, 137

Rushava, 117

Russia and the transmission of folk-tales, 24;
the saints in, 40;
heterodox sects, 53

Russian tales, 22, 26, 27;
animal tales, 53

Ruthenians, 22

Sahula, 31

Saineanu, L., Basmele RomÂne, 72, 258

St. George, 121.
See also George, St.

Saints, The, 39, 40;
on earth, 76

Saints, Lives of the, 120

Samodiva.
See Sila.

Sanziana, 117

Sarcophaga canaria, 215

Satan.
See Devil, The

Satan worship, 89

Satires, Animal, 31, 32

Saturday, Holy Mother, 236

Satyrs, 89

Saul and David, 358

Saw-fly, why is it red? 104;
why does it live in stables? 108

Saxons, 15

Scapegoat, The, 89

Schott, A. and A., 58

Scripture characters, legends of, 57

Sea, The, divided, 268

Sects, Influence of, 55

Seed of the earth, The devil and, 61

Seirim, 89

Semitic languages, 14

Serpent as deceiver of Eve, 219;
bites the swallow’s tail, 220

Seth, The dog dwells with, 362

Setter, The, 317

Sevastos, 319

Sezatoarea, 58

Sheba, Queen of, 239

Sheep, made by the Devil, 22, 88;
given to Adam, 79;
the shepherd and the (God and the lamb), 94;
and the gad-fly, 115, 116;
God’s blessing on, 138;
and the dog, 361

Shepherd, The polite, and the gadfly, 115, 116

Shirt, The poisoned, 299

Sicily, Survivals in, 10

Sila Samodiva, 238

Silkworm, The, its origin, 193

Sin arises among men, 110

Sindbad the Sailor, 262

Singing of the birds, 151

Skeat, Walter, 28

Slavonic language and the Rumanian language, 17;
in Rumania, 51

Slavonic tales, Parallels with Rumanian, 22, 33

Slavs, 15, 50;
and saints, 40;
in the Balkans, 43

“Sleep” ring, 204

Smiths, The, and nails for the Crucifixion, 184

Snake, The, 82;
the Devil as Eve’s house-snake, 211;
stops up holes in the ark, 218;
saved from the burning tree, and King Solomon, 325;
with a headache, 327

Snake-bite, Charm for a cow against, 351;
charm against, 353

Solomon, King, gift of the tuft to the hoopoe, 230;
Solomon’s ring, 272;
as judge between the man and the snake, 325

Songs and ballads, Religious, 48

Sorcery, 55

Soul, The pilgrimage of the, after death, 341;
Egyptian ideas on, 344

Spain, The saints in, 40;
the Goths in, 41;
Arab conquest of, 46

Sparrow, Christ’s curse on, 195;
age of, 196;
and the sapling, 196;
charms against, 197;
accuses man, 339

Sparrow-hawk, The, 302

Spider, The sullen, 70;
and the Holy Mother, 184, 185, 186;
hangs on a thread, 185, 186;
David and the use of, 358

Spiritual unification in religion, 11

Stag, The, and the maiden, 95

Starling, The, variant of Partridge, fox, and hound story, 293

Stars, The, fallen angels, 74;
the Great Bear or Car, 80;
the stolen, 99

Steel, Mrs. F. A., 28

Step-mother, The wicked, 225

Stone, The, eats the Devil and becomes a wolf, 84

Stork, The, and the waters of life and death, 263;
lose their tails, 265;
King of the frogs, 304;
and the tomtit, 305;
pleads for man, 340

Sultan’s horse, The, 329

Summer, The thrush and the making of, 153

Sun, The, stolen, 99;
The Devil and the, 71;
marriage of the, 72;
and moon, 72;
and God’s oxen (bull-flies), 102;
and the Emperor Pic, 199;
and the young knight (cricket), 207;
and the princess Little Light (lark), 240;
and the rat, 318;
slandered by the moon, 359

Sun, Festival of the, 246;
Mother of the, 242, 244;
Sister of the, 245, 247, 248

Sunday, Holy Mother, 237, 273

Survivals in folk-tales, 9, 12, 15, 16, 19, 36, 37, 38

Swallow, The, and the Holy Mother, 185, 186;
a sacred bird, 188;
its origin and forked tail, 188, 220;
guardian spirit of the knocking mountains, 265;
the demon’s wife becomes a swallow with red breast and divided tail, 271;
servant of Holy Sunday, 273;
a sacred bird, 274;
pleads for man, 340

Swan, The, The king and swan maiden, 249;
origin of, 254;
“Song of the dying swan,” 254;
legend of the swan maiden (carol), 256

Swine, Blood of, to water the vine, 92

Sword, The, and the threads, 269

Synaxarium, 120

Syntipas, 330

Syria, 30, 31, 36

Syrians, 15

T

TannhÄuser legend, 204

Tartarian language of the Bulgars, 18

Tartars, 15, 24

Teeth of children, Crows and, 175

Temple, R. C, 28

Temple, The burning of the, and the swallows, 188

Teodorescu, G. Dem., 58

Teutonic mythology, 49

Theodosius and Arianism, 42

Thessaly, 116

Thieves, 76

Thrace, 10, 24, 26, 50

Thrush, The yellow, 151;
the boastful, 153

Thumb, A., Bulletin of John Rylands Library, 93

Thunder, 66

Thursday, Holy Mother, 236

Tiger, The, and the lion, 308

Titmouse, The, and the pumpkin, 146

Titus the wicked, 357

Toads, 82

Tobit, Book of, 30

Toledo, Council of, 47

Tomtit, The, and the stork, 305

Toothache, The ant as a remedy against, 283

Tophail, Ibn, 31

Tortoise, The, Origin of, 180;
as almoner of the Virgin, 192, 194;
in the procession to Golgotha, 193

Totemism, 2

Toulouse, 41;
Council of, 47

Transmigration of the soul into animals.
See Metempsychosis

Transmission of folk-tales, 4, 6, 7, 16, 36

Transylvania, Saxon colony in, 22;
tales collected from Rumanians in, 58

“Tree, The world,” 49

Tristram and Isolde, 248

Turkish conquest, 52

Turks, 15

Turtle dove and its song, 149;
and its love for its mate, 299;
its tears, 299

Twilight, The stolen, 99

Tylor, E. B., on beast tales in his Primitive Culture, 8

U

Ulfilas, 42, 44

Ulysses, 262

V

Valens, Emperor, 42

Vallachia, 51

“Vegetation god,” 10

Vermin, St. Peter and, 144;
charms against, 221

Vilas, 21

Vine, The, none before the flood, 90;
Noah discovers the grapes, 91;
St. Dionysios and bones of bird, lion, and donkey, 92

Virgin, The.
See Mary

Visions of St. Peter, Paul, and the Lady Mary, 344

Vitae Sanctorum, 120

Vixen, The, and the tom cat, 332

Voinic inflorit, 104

Volga, The, 44

Volsunga Saga, 47

Vultures, 302

W

Wagtail, The gipsies’ bird, 161;
“half a bird,” 161;
its borrowed tail and why it wags it, 228

Wanderer, Poems of the, 15

Wart, Mole, charm against, 179

Wasp, The, as the Gipsy’s bee, 135, 137;
David and the use of, 358

Water, The birds dig for, 176, 178

Waters made holy by Baptism, 80;
of life and death, 263

Weasel, Charm if bitten by a, 354;
not among the creatures of the sea, 366

Weaver son, The (spider), 69

“Wedding Feast of Tom, The,” 22

Wells, The birds dig, 176, 178

Wesselofsky, A. N., 53, 101

Wheelwrights (bull-flies), 103

“Who killed Cock Robin?” 33.
See also Cock Robin

“Who killed the cat?” 33

Widow, The, and her two children, 69

Wife, Bad, Charm against, 132

Willow tree, The, St. Mary, 344

Wind, The, 126;
and the rat, 318

Wine, Noah and, 91;
St. Dionysios and, 93

Witchcraft, 54, 55;
and the illness of animals, 348

Witches, 89;
philtres and spells of, 175

Wlislocki’s Zigeuner-mÄrchen, 65, 87

Wolf, The, 25;
and the lamb, 27;
myths of the, 49;
St. Peter’s dogs, 77, 81;
why the wolf is ferocious, 79;
made by the devil, 79, 82, 83, 85;
power over the devil, 80;
the devil’s hairs, 80, 81, 82, 83;
the eyes fired by the devil, 81, 82;
the devil becomes a wolf, 84;
eats the devil, 85;
God’s dogs, 88;
kills the goats, 88;
the boasting, 309;
and the pointer and setter, 317;
and the Sultan’s horse, 329;
and the lion, 329, 331;
and the tom cat, 332;
challenges the dog, 335;
in stories from Ahikar, 355;
and the dog, 361

Woman, Inquisitive old, who became the woodpecker, 141;
the greedy old, who became the tortoise, 180

Women, The lark and the taming of, 296

Woodpecker, Origin of the, 141

World-wide range of fairy lore, 4

Worms in apples, 122;
Day of the worms, 123;
that eat the cherries, 202;
charms against worms in beasts, 352, 353

Wren, The, lends its tail to the wagtail, 228;
becomes king by a trick, 300;
a furtive bird, 301

Y

Ygdrasil, The Northern, 345

Z

Zanas, 21

Zoroastrianism, 26

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