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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]