G. = Gypsy, and Gs. = Gypsies.
‘Accursed Garden, The,’ 232.
Actors, Gs. as, 124.
Africa, Gs. in, ix, xxxviii–xli.
Agareni, xxii.
‘Ali Baba,’ li.
Animals, grateful. See Grateful animals.
Apple causing horns to grow, 85–86.
Apples turning into donkey, 98.
Revivifying apple, 29, 57.
Apples of pregnancy, 36, 40, 65, 66.
Golden apple-tree and apples, 26, 27, 135, 137, 182, 183, 220, 225, 227.
Arabic and Rómani, xxxiii.
Ash-hole, sitting in, or by stove, 155, 235, 242, 267, 268.
Asia Minor, lxiv n.
Australia, Gs. in, xvii, xviii.
‘Bad Mother, The,’ 24.
Baht or bakht, fortune, 53 n.
‘Baldpate,’ 4.
Ball of yarn, thread, etc, 221, 222, 233, 234, 254, 255, 268.
Barbu Constantinescu, Dr., lii, liii.
Basque-speaking G., xxxix.
Bataillard, Paul, x, xxix, xl, xli.
‘Beam, The,’ lxxxi.
Bear, 31, 228, 272–78.
Bear-wards, xliii, xliv.
‘Beauty and the Beast,’ l.
‘Beautiful Mountain, The,’ 107.
Bell of Antermony, John, xxxvii.
Bellows, xx, xxvi, lxiv n, 248, 285–286 n.
‘Binnorie,’ 132.
Bird-maidens. See Swan-maidens.
Birds, summoning the, 38, 40, 214, 254, 255.
Queen of the birds, 59.
Prophetic and talking birds, lxxix, 6, 9, 115, 116, 256.
Bird, stealing a, 106, 185–187, 284.
Birth-marks, 17, 72, 121–23, 181, 236, 241.
‘Black Dog of the Wild Forest,’ 267.
‘Black Lady, The,’ 256.
Blind mother of dragon, 84, 143.
Blindness cured, 78, 79, 113, 115, 122, 123, 187.
Blood, Mountains of, 32.
‘Blue Belt, The,’ 35.
‘Blue Light, The,’ 103.
Boat-dwelling Scotch tinkers, lix.
‘Bobby Rag,’ 198.
Bologna, Gs. in 1422 at, x–xii.
Boots. See Youngest son.
Bow and arrows, 259.
Bread cast on water to discover drowned body, 139.
Breaking through to steal, 146 n.
Bride, Forsaken, li.
Bridge, 12, 268, 269.
Golden bridge, xlviii, 23.
‘Brigands and Miller’s Daughter,’ 168.
‘Brother Lustig,’ 249.
Brothers of the Cross, 80 n, 93.
‘Brown Bear of the Green Glen,’ 272.
Bukowina-G. stories, liii, 29–34, 61–129, 181.
‘Bull-calf, De Little,’ 205. [297]
Burning, punishment of, 28, 71, 74, 94, 102, 175, 201, 204, 256.
Bursting of monster, 18 n.
Bushel to measure money with, 113, 117, 170, 263.
Cake and blessing or curse, lxxvii, 219, 257.
Callot, Jacques, xxxvii.
Campbell of Islay, J. F., xlv–xlvii, lviii–lxi.
His West Highland Tales, lxxvi–lxxx, 3, 12, 124, 171 n, 188, 192, 233, 242, 243, 255, 262.
Candle, shining like a, 16, 17, 95, 105.
Cannibalism, lxxiii, lxxiv, 37, 61, 66, 165, 181.
Cards, playing, 28, 117, 120, 184, 256.
Carlyle’s, Mrs., G. ancestry, 51.
Carriageful of money, 73, 82, 90, 113.
Cart, winged, 93.
‘Caruseddu,’ 109.
Castles of copper, silver, and gold, xlvi, 60, 233–34, 244, 245.
Catalonian-G. story, 249.
Chair that one cannot rise out of, 248.
Chaldæan version of Tobit, 3.
Chaltsmide, xxii.
Chamber, forbidden, 25, 30, 256.
‘Childe Rowland,’ 40.
Childlessness, liii, 21, 24, 36, 65, 175.
China, Gs. in, xxxvii, xxxviii.
Chinganéros, xvii.
Church and priest, transformation into, lxxi, 127, 196.
Chutilla the Handless, 111.
‘Cinderella,’ 259.
Cloak of darkness, 164.
Clock, musical and rejuvenating, 54.
Club, hurling a. See Mace.
Cock-crow, 14, 15, 38, 40, 113, 279.
Conception, miraculous, 201, 258.
Copper, palace or castle of, xlvi, 60, 233–34, 244, 245.
Cosquin’s Contes de Lorraine, 3, 52, 72, 79, 85, 90, 109, 117, 120, 128, 175, 197, 246.
Covenant as to new-born child, 102, 103, 125.
Crabs in ‘Master Thief,’ 45, 47, 52, 53.
‘Creation of the Violin, The,’ 131.
Crofton, Mr. H. T., xiv.
Cross, brothers of the, 80 n, 93.
Cross-roads, 85, 90, 220, 236.
Crown floats on to future king’s head, xlv, 97.
Nuptial crown, 21.
Crucifixion. See Nails.
‘Cudgel, bestir thyself,’ lvi n, 251.
Cufic coins, lxxiv.
Danubiani, xix.
Dasent’s Norse tales, 3, 12, 35, 50, 161, 171, 233, 234, 255, 257, 258, 271.
Days of week personified, 31–33.
‘Dead Man’s Gratitude, The,’ 1.
Death, resuscitation from, 8, 18, 28, 33, 94, 99, 103, 270.
‘Death the Sweetheart,’ 140.
‘Deluded Dragon, The,’ 80, 144.
Devil, 19, 93, 94, 112–114, 117–118, 125–127, 141–143, 191–194, 248, 249, 278–282.
‘Dog and the Maiden, The,’ 138.
Omniscient dog, 143.
Helpful dogs, 268–271.
Black Dog, 267.
Donkey-apples, 98.
Donkey-cabbages, 99.
Doom, pronouncing one’s own, 74, 89.
Dragon, 2, 6, 7, 9, 20, 24, 30–34, 62, 78, 80–85, 85–87, 110, 143–144, 151–154, 166–167, 205–208, 219, 252, 253.
Drama and Gs., 124.
Drowned body, recovery of, 139.
Dumplings, leaden, 152.
Dynamitters, xxxii.
Eagles, 78, 79, 198, 214, 215, 274, 275.
Egypt, Gs. in, xix.
Elven, Professor H. van, xli, xlii. [298]
‘Enchanted City, The,’ 117.
English-G. stories, 130, 198–208.
Fairies, lxiii, 77, 78, 133, 138, 141, 143, 155, 160, 178, 258, 259.
‘Fairy Bride,’ 259.
‘Faithful John,’ 9.
Fata and Moirai, 138.
Feast or ball given, 70, 73, 85, 158, 174, 198, 203.
Feather, magic, lxx, 105, 108, 109, 167 n.
Feats. See Tasks.
Feet, vampire detected by, 14.
‘Ferdinand the Faithful,’ 109.
‘Fiend, The,’ 18.
Fire, undying, 30.
‘Five Trades, The,’ 234.
Flags, red, black, and white, 110.
Fleabite, 82.
Flower, transformation into a, lxix, 16 n, 17, 19, 195.
‘Flying Trunk, The,’ 103.
‘Follower, The,’ 3.
‘Foolish Brother and the Wonderful Bush, The,’ 154.
‘Fool with the Sheep, The,’ 262.
Footprints, detection by, 101.
Forbidden chamber, 25, 30, 256.
Forest, felling a, 22, 23, 64, 126, 191, 243, 255.
Forsaken Bride, l.
Fortune-telling, xi, xii, xiv, xv, xviii, 12.
Fox, 82.
‘De Little Fox,’ 200.
‘Mr. Fox,’ 175, 200.
‘The Fox,’ 283.
‘Frederick and Catherine,’ 266.
Friday personified, 31.
Frogs, 213.
Fruits of pregnancy. See Apple.
Gesta Romanorum, lxvi, lxvii, 90.
Giant, 108, 252, 273, 274, 284.
‘Girl sold to the Devil,’ 161.
Glass mountain, 255.
Goat, riding a, 78.
God, 20, 30, 65, 66, 73, 74, 102, 103, 129, 163, 205, 249, 250–2.
‘Godfather Death,’ liv.
‘God’s Godson,’ 20.
Gold, Gs. as workers in, xxv, xxvi.
Golden apple-tree and apples, 26, 27, 135, 137, 182, 183, 220, 225, 227.
Golden children, 17, 70–72.
Golden God, 48, 188.
Golden fir-trees, 68.
Golden hen, 178, 179, 192.
Golden lambs, 68.
‘Golden Bird and the Good Hare, The,’ 182.
Gonzenbach’s, Laura, Sicilian folk-tales, 3, 35, 51, 109, 164, 182, 188.