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]
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]
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]