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]
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]
Blackbird, The, [151]
“Bluebeard” [34];
Bluebeard story parallel, [261]
Bogomilism, [25], [26], [31], [36], [44];
in Rumania, [52];
in Russia, [53]
Boris, King, [44]
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]
Byzantine myths, [12]