Appetite, monstrous and revolting, of bewitched women, I, 290, 298 f., 301.
Apple, gold, thrown into woman’s lap controls her will, I, 364.
Apple-tree, danger from fairies of sleeping under, I, 340, 350; IV, 455 f.
See I, 319 b, and Ympe Tree.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I, 84 f.
Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12 f., 269, 323 n., 402; II, 43 n., 127, 511 b; V, [13].
Ardai Viraf, Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 236, 506 f., 513 a.
Argyll. See under Family Names.
Arioald, II, 39.
Arm-ring, bribing to secrecy with, II, 51.
Arms, long arms seemingly regarded as a beauty, II, 168; IV, 415; V, [160] f., [164]. (Cf. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, v. 9476, Tyrwhitt.)
Armstrong, John (Gilnockie), said to have molested no Scotsman, but to have levied tribute on the English from the border to Newcastle, III, 364;
makes King James great offers for his life, 365, 370;
appears to have been apprehended by unfair dealing, 365 f.;
hanged, with all his men, 365;
is invited by the king to visit him, and goes with eight score men gallantly attired, 368 f.;
the king thinks him a king, as well as he, 369 f.;
refused pardon, comes near to killing the king, but is finally slain, with all his company, 368 f.
Armstrong, William of Kinmouth (Kinmont Willie), made prisoner by the English in violation of truce, taken by force from Carlisle castle by Sir Walter Scott, laird of Buccleuch, III, 469-74;
his extraordinary and proverbial rapacity, 471.
Armstrongs, their strength, III, 363;
ravage both the English and the Scottish border, 364 a.
See under Family Names.
Arngosk, Lady of, ballad, IV, 241 ff.
Arrow, bearing, III, 29, 202, 341;
broad, III, 29, 160, 176, 199, 202, 341; IV, 505 f.;
letter sent on an arrow-head, III, 223 f., 231; V, [241] a;
arrow shot to determine place for grave, I, 185 (?); III, 106;
to show where a wife is to be sought, II, 499.
Arthour and Merlin, romance of, IV, 479 b.
Arthur, King, I, 257-67, 271-3, 283-91, 289-91, 293-6;
his custom of not dining until he had had or heard of an adventure, I, 257, 263; III, 51, and n.
So Robin Hood, III, 51.
Arthur a Bland, tanner of Nottingham, kinsman of Little John, III, 137;
the tune, 133, and n.
Arthur a Bradley, a ballad, III, 215, 217.
Arthur’s seat shall be my bed, song, IV, 105.
Artificial curiosities, wand with three singing living lavrocks sitting thereon, etc., I, 201 f., 205, 503; III, 501 b; IV, 450 b.
Austerities vowed by actors in tragic stories, as tributes of grief, penances, etc., II, 156 f., 159, 162 f., 165 f., 175, 177, 179, 258, 318 f.; IV, 97, 360, 433; V, [223] a.
Austrríki, I, 460 n.
The Avowynge of King Arthur, metrical romance, I, 209.
Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin (Jehan et Blonde), romance, I, 191 n.; V, [287] b.
Blood:
blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for leprosy, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, [285];
blood of Christians in Hebrew rites, III, 240-3; IV, 497 a;
blood, drinking to dissolve enchantment, I, 337, and n.;
blood, emission of, from dead body on being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143, 146, 148, 153; IV, 468 a.
Blood stanched with a charm, II, 441, 445, 450.
Blood-relations refuse to ransom a captive woman, a woman about to be hanged; done by husband or lover, II, 346-9, 350-3; III, 516; IV, 481 f.; V, [231-4], [296];
the same story, with parts shifted, of a man ransomed by his mistress, II, 349 f.; III, 516; IV, 481; V, [233] f., [296];
Chambers, Robert, his contention that Lady Wardlaw was the author of Sir Patrick Spens and other ballads, II, 20 n.
Champion, diminutive, successful against huge and dangerous antagonist in judicial combat, II, 35-37, 37 n., 38, 39?, 43 n., 45 f. See Child-champion.
Change of clothes with beggar, palmer, I, 189, 191, 192, 202-207; III, 157, 179, 181 f., 184, 188, 271, 273 f.
Change of parts of man and woman in different versions of the same or a similar tale, I, 142, 187, 455, Nos 17, 53; 298; II, 236, 349, 426; IV, 186; V, [34], [296].
Charcoal-burners, III, 109; V, [6], [70] f., [75], and n.
Charlemagne’s Journey to Jerusalem, I, 274-9; III, 503 b.
Charles the Fifth (emperor) and a broom-maker; and a peasant; Belgian stories, V, [74].
Charles the Great and the charcoal-burner, rhymed tale, V, [70] f.
Charm:
knight obliges lady to go off with him by sticking a charm in her sleeve, I, 57;
charm or rune employed to induce sleep, I, 28, 48, 55, 391.
Charrois de Nymes, Li, chanson de geste, V, [298] a.
Charter of peace sought by outlaws, III, 27.
Chastity, or fidelity in love, tests of, I, 258-71, 507 a; II, 502; III, 503; IV, 454 a; V, [212] f., [289] a.
Arch, sword and garland in Amadis which test the fact and the measure of faithful love, I, 267.
Du Chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, fabliau, III, 258.
Du Chevalier qui coit la masse, et Notre-Dame estoit pour lui au tournoiement, fabliau, III, 96 n.
Cheviot, Hunting of the, ballad, III, 303 ff.
Child, children, living, buried with dead mother, I, 180, 185; IV, 450 a (No 15);
child, young or unborn, speaks miraculously, to save life, vindicate the innocent, or to threaten revenge, III, 367, and nn.; IV, 507 a; V, [298] a.
Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, tale, I, 322; V, [201].
The Child of Wane, boy who protects school-girls from the assaults of his fellows, I, 308 n.
Childbirth, man’s help rejected and presence forbidden at, I, 179, 181-3, 245 f., 502 a; II, 98, 106 f., 414, 418, 422, 499; IV, 450 a, 464; V, [236];
pains of woman in childbirth repeated in the person of the man, II, 109; V, [292];
roddins (mountain-ash berries), juniper, desired by a woman at the point of childbirth, II, 408 f., 414;
first child, all the seven sisters of a family to die thereof, and six have so died, II, 311-16;
woman who has just borne a child to a lover, forced to marry another man, dances with her lover, and falls dead, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;
knots in woman’s clothes, or knots in the house, to be untied at childbirth, I, 85;
all locks to be shot during, II, 498;
mortal midwives and nurses desired by fairies, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, [215] b, [290] b;
woman gives birth to child (children) in stable, among the great horse feet, II, 85, 87, 89, 91 f., 94 f., 97-9; V, [221];
top of tree as place for labor, II, 109.
Childbirth obstructed by spells, I, 82-7; V, [285] b;
seven, nine days, three, seven, eight, twenty years, I, 82-85;
by the Fates and Ilithyia sitting down and folding their hands, by Lucina’s crossing knees and clasping hands over them, 84;
by throwing an enchanted pitcher into a draw-well, driving a nail into the roof-beam, placing folded hands between the knees, 85;
spells broken by persuading the operator that birth has taken place, I, 82-87.
See, further, I, 489; III, 497.
Child-champions, marvellous valor of, II, 37, 43 n., 45 f.; V, [292] a;
in Slavic tales, IV, 463;
cf. Growth, marvellous, etc.;
child (or dwarf) fights with huge or otherwise formidable adversary, II, 35-37, 43 n., 46.
Children born seven, eight, twenty years old (in consequence of obstructed parturition), I, 83-85.
Children of unwedded mother who has died in giving them birth buried alive with her by the father, I, 180.
Children’s game, ballads that have become, I, 33; II, 346.
Choice of sword or ring given maid, to stick him wi the brand or wed him wi the ring, II, 469; IV, 493; V, [28], [238].
Chrétien de Troyes, Cligés, III, 517 b; V, [2], [6];
Erec, III, 507 a;
Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II, 51, 502 b, 510 b; III, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a; V, [289] b.
Christian IV of Denmark and a countryman, Danish tale, V, [74].
Chronicles cited as authority in ballads, III, 297, 333, 360.
Claverhouse, IV, 105-107, 109 f.;
accused of procuring Monmouth’s execution, 109 f.
Clergy accused of adultery with noble ladies, II, 34-36, 38.
The Clever Lass, Clever Wench, or Wise Daughter, I, 1, 8-13;
answers king’s puzzles, performs or offsets his tasks, 9;
answers questions or performs supposed impossibilities and is married for it, 9-11;
solves difficult questions and is elevated by king to the rank of his sister, 12.
See I, 409 n., 410 n., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a; V, [284].
Clifton, assumed name (ineptly) for Scathlock, III, 201, 204.
Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, I, 270.
Clorinda, queen of the shepherds, espoused by Robin Hood, III, 217.
Clothes kilted (cut) a little above (below) the knee, hair braided (snooded, cut) a little above the brow, I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457.
Clyde Water, I, 389; II, 32, 88 f., 92, 94, 97, 144-7, 151-5, 461; IV, 188-90, 203; V, [208], [227], [237], [257].
Coach and three, I, 476 f.
Cober, Cabinet-prediger, I, 408.
Cock (capon) crows Christus natus est! I, 240-2, 505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.;
miracle of the roasted cock reanimated, I, 233-242, 505; II, 8, 501 b; III, 502 f.; IV, 451 f.; V, [212] a, [288] a;
originally a feature in a legend of Judas, I, 239 f.
Cock, unfaithful or remiss, IV, 389 f., 416.
Cocks (crowing in the night), three, white, red, black, II, 228; V, [294] a;
two, red, grey, II, 229, 239;
milk-white, grey, II, 233; IV, 474;
white, red, III, 514.
Cognizances, parties in The Rose of England (a ballad of Henry VII’s winning the crown) mostly indicated by, III, 331.
Cokwolds Daunce, English comic tale, I, 264.
Commonplaces (recurrent passages):—
When bells were rung and mass was sung,
And a’ men bound to bed, I, 68, 70, 73; II, 70, 73, 75 f., 79, 88, 90, 129 f., 132, 191, 300, 370, 470, 472; III, 244-7, 254; IV, 44 f., 237 f., 240, 283, 327, 432, 470; V, 171, 224, 239.
Lord William was buried in St. Mary’s Kirk,
Lady Margret in Mary’s quire;
Out o the lady’s grave grew a bonny red rose,
And out o the knight’s a briar.
And they twa met, and they twa plat,
And fain they wad be near, etc., I, 101 f., 492; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 207 f., 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f.; III, 515; IV, 465; V, 224, 226, 262.
Where will I get a bonnie boy,
Will win gold to his fee?
O here am I, etc., II, 114, 116-19, 121, 123 f., 129, 131, 177, 186, 188, 190, 194, 212, 284-7, 311, 313, 316, 379, 394 f.; IV, 229, 235, 398, 466 f., 486, 488; V, 227.
O whan he came to broken briggs
He bent his bow and swam,
An whan he came to the green grass growin
He slackd his shoone (set down his feet) and ran, II, 114 f., 117, 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 247 f., 250, 253, 257, 272, 287, 311, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398, 466 f., 477; V, 228, 262.
O whan he came to Lord William’s gates,
He baed na to chap or ca,
But set his bent bow till his breast,
An lightly lap the wa;
An, or the porter was at the gate,
The boy was i the ha, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 477; V, 228.
O is my biggins broken, boy?
Or is my towers won?
Or is my lady lighter yet
Of a dear daughter or son?
Your biggin is na broken, sir, but—, II, 115-19, 122 f., 131 f., 212, 248, 250, 253-5, 257; IV, 467, 477.
O saddle me the black, the black,
Or saddle me the brown:
O saddle me the swiftest steed
That ever rade frae a town, II, 115-18, 120-13, 212, 216-18, 254, 312 f.; IV, 234, 236, 467, 477; V, 228, 262.
O where is a’ my merry young men
Whom I gie meat and fee? I, 368 f., 396; II, 114, 123, 266-8, 403; III, 10; V, 35, 37, 292.
O is your saddle set awrye?
Or rides your steed for you owre high? (saddle, bridle, stirrups, or something, not comfortable for maid who is riding), I, 66, and n., 68, 70, 72, 75-7, 79 f., 146, 179; IV, 450 a.
The first line that Sir Patrick red,
A loud lauch lauched he;
The next line that Sir Patrick red,
The teir blinded his ee, II, 18 n., 20 f., 26 f., 29 f., 381 f., 385, 387, 389 f., 392 f., 395; IV, 117-121, 351-4, 413, 483, 486.
Gown narrow that was wont to be wide; coats short that were wont to be side, etc., II, 85, 122, 399, 401, 406 f., 409, 413; V, 36, 236.
I’m oer laigh to be your bride,
And I winna be your whore, II, 181, 188; IV, 323, 325, 327, 330-32; V, 272.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee, etc., I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457; V, 202 a.
(Pretence that a maid is trespassing in a wood.)
She had na pu’d a double rose,
A rose but only twa,
Till up there started young Tam Lin,
Says, Lady, thou’s pu nae mae, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, and n., 367, 369, 450-53; III, 504; IV, 456 f.
He took her by the milk-white hand,
And by the grass-green sleeve, etc., I, 346, 349, 357 b, 387, 452 f.; II, 465, 468, 475; IV, 193, 195-200, 203, 205 f., 456; V, 239. Cf. IV, 219-22, 225-7, 229.
O syne ye’ve got your will of me,
Your will o me ye’ve taen,
‘T is all I ask of you, kind sir,
Is to tell me your name.
Sometimes they call me Jack, he said, etc., I, 346, 444, 446, 450 f.; II, 458, and n., 459 f., 462, 465, 468, 471, 473-5, 478 f.; IV, 196, 200; V, 153-6, 237, 239.
(Dower despised.)
I’m seeking nane o your gold, he says,
Nor of your silver clear,
I only seek your daughter fair, etc., II, 380, 382 f., 385 f., 388, 390 f., 393 f., 396, 400 f., 403-5; IV, 381 f., 399, 413 f., 487; V, 184, 276.
Lord Wayets lay over his castle-wa,
Beheld baith dale and down,
And he beheld, etc., I, 183; II, 131, 175, 257, 343 f.; IV, 235, 279, 403 f., 408, 433; V, 277 f.
Hold your tongue, my daughter dear,
And ye’ll lat a’ your mourning be;
I’ll wed you to a higher match, etc., II, 163, 166; IV, 96-103, 166-72, 174 f., 277, 279.
If this be true, a reward; if a lie, hanging, II, 244 f., 247-9, 251, 253-5, 257; III, 299; cf. II, 114.
Ffor because thou minged not Christ before,
Thee lesse me dreadeth thee, II, 59, 62; III, 422.
Sheet (sark, smock) for the dead, one half cambric, the other needlework (beaten gold and needlework; silk and cambric), bier one half gold, the other silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471 (IV, 485, bier lacking; V, 224, sheet or sark lacking).
Horse: Wi siller he is shod before,
Wi burning gowd behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224.
The day ye deal at Annie’s burial
The bread but and the wine;
Before the morn at twall o’clock
They’ll deal the same at mine, II, 190 f., 193, 195, 201, 203, 208, 211 f., 217, 219, 295; IV, 236, 465, 471; V, 224, 262.
It’s kiss will I yer cheek, Annie
And kiss will I your chin, etc., II, 191, 212, 217, 219, 221 f., 269, 273; IV, 236 f., 474.
She’s put it to her fause, fause cheek,
But an her fause, fause chin,
She’s put it to her fause, fause lips,
But never a drap went in.
He’s put it to his bonny cheek, etc., II, 284 f., 287; IV, 235, 427 f., 431.
The firstin kirk (town) that they came till
They gard the bells be rung,
At the nexten kirk that they came till
They gard the mass be sung, II, 358, 350 f., 367, 380, 385, 388 f., 391 f., 396, 469; IV, 487 f., 490.
Johnny Barbary used to be the first,
But now the last came he, II, 401, 403, 460 f., 463, 466, 469, 471, 473-6; IV, 491; V, 238.
She’s taen her mantle her about,
Her cane (pike-staff, rod) intill her hand, II, 223;
III, 245, 248, 505; IV, 408 (6); of man, II,
370; IV, 408 (14). (Corrupted, also, III, 250,
252.)
She’s taen her mantle her about,
Her coffer by the band, I, 350; III, 244; IV, 385. Cf. IV, 456.
She’s taen her petticoat (petticoats) by the band,
Her mantle owre her arm, I, 348, 349 (bis); II, 475.
The knight he knacked (wrung) his white fingers,
The lady tore her hair, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9.
Will ye gae to the cards or dice, etc., II, 109, 154, 164, 409; IV, 391, 415.
(Wedding procession.)
Wi four-and-twenty buirdlie men
Atween ye and the wun,
And four-and-twenty bonnie mays
Atween ye and the sun.
Four-and-twenty milk-white geese,
Stretching their wings sae wide,
Blawing the dust aff the high-way,
That Mild Mary may ride, II, 315. See II, 132, 183, 195 a; IV, 470.
I’ll gae in at your gown-sleeve,
And out at your gown-hem, I, 508; II, 366.
Man and woman riding, no word spoken by either (or by one of them) for a long distance, I, 41-44; III, 497 b; V, [207] a, [285] a (in French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic; not English).
Communion-bread called “God,” etc., III, 103 n.; V, [240], [299], [359] (under mood).
The Complaynt of Scotland, I, 336, 390; II, 51 n., 296; III, 292, 303, 317, 362 f.; V, [202].
Compulsory marriage, woman carried off, III, 329; IV, 232-54, 308-10; V, [168] f., [261-264].
Confession, wife’s, heard by husband disguised, III, 258-64.
The Constant but Unhappy Lovers, chap-book, V, [33].
Constantine, Emperor, his leprosy miraculously cured, V, [285].
Conte du Graal, Gautier’s, ugly lady in, V, [289] b. See also Chrétien.
Contes à rire, I, 268 n., 408;
Nouveaux Contes à rire, I, 408.
Conversion, remarkably sudden, of Jean Livingston, IV, 29 f.
Copland, John of, takes David Bruce prisoner at Durham, III, 286.
Corgarf Castle, III, 427, 434.
Cork-heeled shoon, II, 20, 22 f., 27, 29 f., 88; III, 393.
Costumes enclosed in nut-shells or small bags, I, 260, and n.
The Cotter’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.
The Countess of Northumberland (Rising in the North), III, 403-5, 410, 417.
La Coupe Enchantée, La Fontaine, I, 265.
Craddocke, I, 264 n., 272 f.; V, [289] a (Welsh Caradawc).
Crawford, Earl, ballad, IV, 276 ff.
Crecrynbroghe Castle, III, 430.
Créqui, Sire de, I, 459.
Crescentia, II, 181.
Crichton. See under Family Names.
Cries, three (four), maid about to be murdered asks and is allowed, I, 32-37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, [207].
Cromlet’s Lilt, reply to, II, 317 n.
Cromwell, Thomas Lord, ballad, III, 377.
Diu Crône of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 264, 266, 279 a.
Cross burned or cut into the flesh, II, 240, 242, 513 a; III, 514; IV, 476; V, [225] b.
The Cruel Mother, German variations of (Die Rabenmutter, Kindesmörderin, u.s.w.), I, 219 f., 504 a; II, 500 a; III, 502 b; IV, 451 a; V, [212] a, [287] b;
Slavic, Magyar, Croat, variations, I, 220, 504 a; III, 502 b; V, [287] f.
The Cruel Mother, story of, blended with that of Magdalen and Samaritan women, I, 230;
with that of the Samaritan woman simply, ib.
Cuchulinn, Cuculin, IV, 463 b, 479 b.
Culpepper, affair of the Earl of Devonshire with, IV, 111.
Cunigund, name of Gunhild, wife of the Emperor Henry III, after her marriage, II, 38.
Cunigund, St., wife of the Emperor St. Henry II, her ordeal, II, 38.
Cunningham, Allan, his handling of Scottish ballads, I, 62 119 n., 142, 227, 436; II, 260, 302 f.; III, 265, 381; IV, 9, 80; V, [107]; etc.
Curse, mother’s, I, 386; IV, 181, 186-9; V, [257], [301] a.
Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, III, 505 f. See Mittagsfrau and Noon-sprite.
Dame Ragnell, I, 290.
Damiani, Pietro, I, 237 n.
La damoisele hydeuse in Chrétien’s Perceval, II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, [289] b.
Damsel who prizes herself too highly marries and has a litter of nine pups, a pig, and a boy, I, 210.
Dance, probation by, of young woman suspected of having had a child; she dies in consequence; she dances with all the men of the court, tires out successively all the courtiers, the king and the queen; dances seven hours without breaking down, II, 102 (dance ordered, but deprecated, 103);
jealous or offended lover makes his mistress dance till her boots are full of blood, II, 103;
young woman who has just borne a child, married against her will, dances with her lover after the wedding and dies of the exertion, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;
girl tires out fifteen partners (in Danish ballads), IV, 214;
lass of Anglesey, dancing on king’s party against English lords, tires out fifteen of them, 215.
Dark complexions in women, not in favor, I, 120, 133, M, (10), 135 (1); II, 182-97; V, [167] f.
Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart), III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;
murder of, in revenge for his complicity in the murder of Rizzio, III, 399, 401;
hanged on a tree, 401, 444.
Dasakumaracharitam, I, 14.
The Daughter of King Under-waves, Scottish-Gaelic tale (Nighean Righ fo Thuinn), I, 297.
Davenant, Sir William, The Wits, II, 243.
David, King of Judah, gives hard questions to his sons to determine his successor; answered by Solomon, I, 13 n.
David Bruce, King of Scotland, can brook no opposition and kills his own squire for warning him of the danger of invading England; distributes portions of English territory among his chief men, before the battle of Durham, III, 284 f.;
is taken prisoner by John of Copland, 286;
meets King John of France, also a captive, in London, 287.
De simplicitate viri et uxoris, tale of Sercambi, V, [97].
The Dead.
Dead body compromises the safety of a ship, I, 245 n.
Dead body lying in a river, expedients for discovering, II, 143, 145, 147 f., 151, 155.
Dead body may be caused to speak by setting door ajar or half open, II, 281, 282 (15) (Scott. Nothing said of the door being ajar in B, p. 283, or in the original of A, IV, 478).
Dead brother admonishes his sister for her pride of dress, I, 428, 430 f.
Carlin’s three sons come back from Paradise with hats of birch, II, 238 f.
Dead corpse of boy makes appointment to meet mother, III, 244 f., 247; V, [241].
The dead, love tokens asked back by; gifts returned by, II, 228.
Grief for the dead detrimental to their comfort and peace, II, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513; V, [294];
resentment for the disturbance occasioned by, V, [62];
tears for dead lover fill his coffin with blood; cheerfulness causes his grave to be hung with rose-leaves, II, 228.
Kiss from the dead fatal, I, 439; II, 229-32, 236 f.; III, 512 f.; IV, 474 f.;
bramble-leaf comes between the lips of maid and lover, and her life saved, IV, 474.
Maid demands answers of her dead lover to questions concerning state of the dead as condition of returning his troth, II, 231-3.
Dead man coming on horseback to his mistress (wife, sister) and taking her with him, V, [60];
Dead mother revisits her daughter, and would have torn her to pieces, V, [303] b.
Dead mistress admonishes her lover, I, 426.
Troth asked for and returned by maid to dead lover, or resumed by her, II, 227, 229-33.
Father asks return of troth from his son, II, 512 b.
Dead lover (like the Devil, Elfin Knight) sets maid tasks and would have taken her with him if she had not ‘answered well,’ baffled him by requiring preliminary counter-tasks, IV, 439 f.
Death feigned by maid (who takes a draught which produces insensibility) in order to get to her lover, II, 355 f., 358-67; III, 517; IV, 482-6; V, [234] a;
save her honor, avoid becoming a king’s mistress, avoid marrying a Turk, avoid a disagreeable suitor, or to move a lover, II, 356; III, 517; IV, 482 b; V, [234] a, [296] b;
painful or disagreeable tests of her sensibility, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, [296] b.
Death feigned by wife to escape to lover, or apparent death operated by sleeping draughts administered by lover (woman is in some cases buried, disinterred and carried off), V, [3] f., [6], [280];
Death feigned by lover in order to possess himself of maid when she comes to his wake, or his funeral, I, 247-53, 506 f.; II, 502 a; III, 503 a; IV, 453; V, [212], [289] a. (The maid in a convent in some cases, and the body introduced into the cloister; nuns think it an angel that has taken maid off, and they wish the like for themselves, I, 248 f.)
Death of bridegroom, husband, concealed from bride, wife, by evasions, I, 376-9, 381, 383-7.
The Death of Keeldar, ballad by Sir W. Scott, IV, 25.
The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, III, 129, 519.
Death-naming. See Naming.
The Debateable Land, III, 363 n., 473.
Dee, Water of, II, 283, 468; III, 360, 457; IV, 52 f., 103.
Delamere, Lord, ballad, IV, 110 ff.
Deloney’s Pleasant History of John Winchcomb (Jacke of Newburie), I, 111, 113.
Demaundes Joyous, I, 13 n.
Demoniac character of the murderous knight in No 4, I, 49 f.
Derby, Earl of, incurs the anger of Henry VIII because Lancashire and Cheshire are maliciously represented by the Earl of Surrey to have failed to do their duty at Flodden, III, 355-7;
the next day a letter from the queen gives all the credit of the victory to Lancashire and Cheshire and the Earl of Derby, and the Stanleys are in high favor, III, 359.
Derwentwater, ballad by Allan Cunningham, IV, 116.
Derwentwater, Lord, ballad, IV, 115 ff.
Derwentwater’s Lights, IV, 117.
Les deux Fiancés, tale of French Brittany, V, [64].
Devil appears to counsel and take part in a murder, IV, 31.
Devil gives riddles, I, 4 f., C, D, and tasks, 14;
(represented imposes tasks and is baffled by the maid, 18 f., I;
Devonshire, Earl of, fights with a French or Dutch lord in defence of Lord Delamere, IV, 111-115.
Diarmaid allows a hideous woman to come near his fire and under his blanket, she is transformed into the most beautiful creature in the world, Gaelic tale, I, 298;
Diarmaid and Grainne, West Highland Gaelic tale, I, 8.
Diarmaid and the Magic Boar, West Highland tale, II, 500.
Diarmaid’s wife tries the robe which is a test of chastity, Gaelic ballad, I, 261 f.; V, [289].
Dicing for prisoners, III, 378 f.
Diderik, King, and Gunild, II, 36.
Dietrichs Flucht, IV, 463 b.
Dietrichsaga, I, 49.
Dieu vous saue, Dame Emme, song or ballad, II, 38 n.
Disenchantment effected by drinking of blood, or by drawing blood from the bewitched, I, 178, 337, and n.;
by kisses given (or received from) a disgusting or terrible creature, or by touching the same, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, [214], [290] a;
not completed without, often operated by, immersion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, [39] f.;
other processes or conditions, I, 313, 315; V, [215].
Disenchantment of hideous woman effected by obtaining absolute sovereignty over a man’s will, I, 290-2, 295 f., 299;
by finding a man who would accept his life at her hands, kiss her, and share her bed, 293;
by being admitted to a king’s or hero’s bed, 297 f.; V, [289] b;
by getting king’s brother for husband, I, 507 a;
disenchantment of seemingly ugly old man effected by gaining the love of a beautiful girl, V, [213] a;
of linden-worm, snake, by being admitted to maid’s bed, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a (cf. V, [289] b);
of crocodile by girl’s licking his face, V, [215] b.
Disguises of outlaws, Fulk Fitz-Warine, Hereward, Eustace, Wallace, Robin Hood, III, 109 f., 117 f., 178-82, 184, 191, 271, 273 f.;
other disguises, as beggar or pilgrim, V, [2], [4], [5], [279] f.;
Dog who could indicate pregnant women, adulterers, etc., I, 270 n.
Dole-day, II, 436.
Dolopathos, Latin (and French) romance, I, 392.
Don Bueso, Catalan representative of Young Beichan, I, 462.
Don John of Austria meets the Earl of Westmoreland on the sea, takes him to Seville and recommends him to the queen, III, 420 f.
Doon l’Alemanz, chanson de geste, II, 40.
Doors and windows thrown on a combatant to take him prisoner, III, 24.
Douglas. See under Family Names.
Douglas, Northumberland betrayed by, ballad, III, 408 ff.
Douglas, tragedy by Home, II, 263, and n., 264.
Douglas, Gavin, Palice of Honour, II, 136, V, 69 n.
Douglas, James, Earl, in the Scottish Otterburn alleged to have been stabbed before the battle by one of his own men, or a boy whom he had offended, III, 294, 299; V, [244];
in another version, to have gone into battle without his helmet, III, 300;
challenges Percy to single combat in The Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 308;
dreams that a dead man wins a fight and thinks that man is he, III, 300, IV, 501.
Douglas, Jamie, ballad, IV, 90 ff.
Douglas, Lady, of Lochleven, tries to protect the Earl of Northumberland from the treachery of William Douglas, III, 411-3;
shows his chamberlain his English enemies waiting for him 150 miles off through the hollow of her ring, 412.
Douglas, William, Earl of Angus, his encounter with the English at Piperden, III, 305.
Douglas, William, knight of Liddesdale, III, 282 f., 284 f., 288.
Douglas, William, of Lochleven, III, 409, 411-14, 443 f., 446.
Douns Lioð, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.
D’Ouville, L’Élite des Contes du Sieur, I, 408; V, [96].
The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by A. Munday, III, 46, 122, 129, 130 n., 179, 218, 220, 227, 519 b; V, [100].
Dramatic representation of ballads by young people, I, 249; IV, 439 b; V, [90].
Dreams:
of bower full of red swine and bride-bed full of blood, II, 200;
room fu o red swine and bride’s bed daubd wi blude, II, 292;
chamber full of swine and bed full of blood, IV, 426;
bowr lin’d with white swine and brid-chamber full of blood, II, 202, B, 11;
chamber full of wild men’s wine and bride-bed stood in blood, II, 202, C, 4;
bower full of milk-white swans and bride’s bed full of blood, IV, 433;
of pulling green heather, IV, 164, 167-9, 171-5, 180 (heather bell), 522; V, [255];
green birk, IV, 176;
apples green, IV, 523;
other dreams, II, 33 n., 41, 45, 205;
to dream of blood bodes ill, II, 292 f.;
to dream of ravens is the loss of a near friend, II, 293.
Die drei Brüder, tale, I, 125, 493 b.
Drink which causes forgetfulness, I, 363, and n., 364.
Drinking formulas, challenge and response, V, [71-73].
Drinking to friends upon the eve of execution, IV, 30 n.
Drolleries, nonplussing, I, 20-2, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b; IV, 440 b.
Drowned bodies, mode of discovering, II, 143, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a.
Drum, Laird of, ballad, IV, 322 ff.
Drumclog, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Drummond. See under Family Names.
Dsanglun, oder der Weise und der Thor, I, 11 n., 13.
Duel in which innocent boy of fifteen vanquishes false accuser of thirty-three, IV, 371, 373. See Child-champion.
Dumfounding, fool wins a princess by, I, 20, 485 a.
Dwarf-king, hill-king, beguiles a princess; she has children by him, though remaining with her mother; revealing the condition of things she is forced to go to the hill, where she dies or drinks a Lethean draught which makes her forget all her earlier history, I, 362, 363, and n.;
woman lives in the hill and there has her children; after eight or nine years is allowed to go home on terms; violating these, is compelled to return to the hill, where she dies, or is given a drink which induces forgetfulness, I, 363 f.
See Merman.
Dwarf Land, I, 259.
Dying man, woman, directs that father, mother, wife, etc., be kept in ignorance of his, her, death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 380 f., 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, [247].
Earl of Toulouse, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.
Eating and drinking, personal contact, exchange of speech, etc., in Elfland, or any abode of unearthly beings, perilous, I, 322-5, 327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.
Edda, the Elder (Sæmund’s):
Völuspá, I, 21;
Þrymskviða, I, 298;
Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404;
Grímnismál, I, 67;
Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419;
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.;
Helgakviða Hundingsbana, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306;
Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392;
Sigrdrífumál, I, 392;
Sigurðarkviða Fafnisbana, III, 2, 127;
Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.
Edda, Snorri’s:
Gylfaginning, I, 283 n.;
Skáldskaparmál, I, 94 n., 283 n.; II, 127; IV, 479 b.
Fair Annie of Kirkland, ballad of A. Cunningham’s, I, 436.
The Fair one of the Castle, Persian riddle poem, I, 417.
A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439 b.
Fairies, euphemisms for, good damsels, good ladies, I, 314, gude neighbors, I, 352 (cf. Romaic, I, 314 n.);
failure of a husband to rescue his wife who had been carried off by, I, 336;
ride white steeds, I, 216, 323, 325, 339 f. (Tam Lin mounted, but not the rest of the fairy train, 342, 344, 346, 348, 349, 351, 352, 355);
ride dapple-gray steeds, 324, 326;
fairies, water-spirits, etc., solicit help of mortal women at lying-in time and as nurses, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, [215] b, [290] b;
fairy, at first appearance, taken for the Virgin, I, 319, 327; III, 504 a; IV, 455;
fairy salve applied to mortals’ eyes gives power of seeing fairies, but is dangerous to use, I, 339; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, [290] a.
False luve, and hae ye played me this, IV, 210.
Family names, the principal:—
Argyll, III, 397; IV, 55-60, 99, 131, 135, 271; V, [252], [266];
Gleyd Argyle, IV, 55, 57-60, 135.
Armstrong, III, 363-71, 409, 419, 461-7, 469-83, 485 n.; IV, 432; V, [298].
Graham (Græme, Gryme), I, 211; III, 299, 318; IV, 9-15, 76, 78, 105-7, 109 f., 146-8; IV, 157, 241 f., 267-9, 500, 518-20; V, [265], [300]. See Montrose.
Hall, III, 485, 487-94; IV, 24-8, 517, 520 f.
Hamilton, III, 285, 341, 382, 384-97, 428, 431, 442; IV, 36, 38, 64, 106, 108, 163, 505-13; V, [187], [191], [193], [246] f., [298] f.
Fiddle, parts of maid’s body taken for, fiddle speaks, I, 494; IV, 449.
Fights, hand to hand, of Robin Hood or his men, duration of:
one hour, III, 64, 219;
two hours, 93, 138, 151;
three hours, 153;
six hours, 125, 166, 169;
a long summer’s day, 131.
Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 188-90.
Filer le parfait amour, tale of Sénecé, I, 269.
Fin, Finn, Finns, I, 21; II, 494, 496 b. See Finns.
Fin, a diabolic personage or warlock, his wit-contest with Harpkin, I, 21.
Finger cut off, of maid substituted for mistress, exhibited as token of conquest of the mistress’s virtue, V, [22-4], [27].
Fingers knacked, knocked, cracked, wrung, for grief, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, [227-9]. (Some passages corrupted.)
Finn, Gaelic hero, his wife tries the robe which is the test of chastity, I, 261 f.; cf. V, [289] a.
Finns, submarine, by donning seal-skin, enabled to ascend to land, losing the skin become subject to the power of man like swan-maidens, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
See Fin.
Finsbury field, archery at, III, 197, 201, 203.
Fionn’s conversation with Ailbhe, I, 3.
Fionn’s Questions, Gaelic tale, I, 3.
Fire will not burn a maid accused but innocent; burns her guilty mistress, II, 145 f., 148, 153, 155.
Fish, frying, fly out of the pan to attest the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, I, 241; II, 501 b; IV, 452 a; V, [288] b.
Girl enticed into an inn by the hostler’s wife and put at a man’s disposal, V, [153-6].
Glammaðr, berserkr, IV, 443 a.
Glascurion (Chaucer), II, 136.
Glove, a game for braw gallants, III, 448, A, 5.
Glove, woman being unfit to dance, lover says he will cut his glove in two and dance for both, II, 105, st. 18.
Gloves, golden-knobbed, II, 133;
siller-knapped, 134.
Gnúpr, IV, 502 a.
God be with thee, Geordie, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
God offered as security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.
Golagros and Gawane, romance, I, 279 n.
Gold castles promised by knight to lady, I, 112.
Der Goldäpfelbaum und die Höllenfahrt, Greek tale, II, 509.
Golden apple thrown into the lap of a woman who has been made to consort with hill-man or merman, and who has been granted leave to visit her mother, to remind her of her obligations or to enforce her return, I, 364 f.
The Golden Key or Ball, tale, with verses from the ballad of the Maid Ransomed from the Gallows, II, 353-5; V, [201], [233].
Golden Legend, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505; II, 235, 507; III, 51, 294 n.
Der goldene Apfel, tale, I, 125.
Das goldene Horn, meistergesang, I, 263.
Goldgerte, Greek tale, I, 338.
Goldsmith, Oliver, II, 276; III, 367.
Göngu-Hrólfs Saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.
Gordon, Adam, III, 424-6, 432-8; IV, 513 f.; V, [247] f.
Gordon, Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, ballad, IV, 332 ff.
Gordon, George, hero of the ballad of Geordie, IV, 124 ff.
Gordon, William, of Rothiemay, IV, 39 ff.
Gorm’s visit to Guthmund, I, 323.
Görtmicheel, robber story, I, 488.
Gorvömb, Icelandic tale, I, 507.
Gôsht-i Fryânô, tale in Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 506 f.
Gospels, apocryphal: Nicodemus, I, 239, 240 n.;
Thomas, Greek and Latin, II, 7;
Protevangelium of James, I, 271;
Pseudo-Matthew, 1, 271; II, 1, 2 n., 7.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, I, 10, 291, 292 n.; V, [285].
Graf Hubert von Kalw, German tale, I, 198.
Graham.
See under Family Names.
Graham, Bewick and, ballad, IV, 144 ff.
Graidhne and Fionn, I, 3;
Graidhne and Diarmaid, I, 8.
Gramarye, for magic, in King Estmere, II, 53-55, efficient to make armor invulnerable, a man too formidable to be undertaken (written on his forehead), and swords irresistible.
Gramatica Parda, Spanish story, I, 407.
Grame, Hughie, ballad, IV, 8 ff.
La gran conquista de ultramar, II, 43 n.
Grant, James, ballad, IV, 49 ff.
Grateful lion, I, 194 f.
Grave: boy directs that he shall be buried with Bible at his head, chaunter at his feet, bow and arrows at his side, I, 438;
arrows at head, bent bow at feet, sword and buckler by his side, I, 440;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, III, 247-50 (also pen and ink at every side, 247);
Bible at head, “busker” at feet, prayer-book by right side, Bible at head, prayer-book at feet, III, 252;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, prayer-book at side, IV, 497 f.;
Green, unlucky color, blue fortunate, II, 181 f., 184, 512; IV, 162;
Fair Annie, nevertheless is dressed in green, II, 196, and her men and maids in green (in an Irish copy), 197 f.
The Green Knight (Bredbeddle), I, 286 f.
Die Greifenfeder, tale of Italian Tirol, I, 125.
Grief, excessive, for the dead destroys their peace, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; V, [62] f., [294].
Grimms, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, I, 9, 14, 47, 125, 126, 198, 260 n., 408, 410; II, 127, 235, 502; IV, 17; V, [46] f.
Grímnismál, Edda, I, 67.
Grímr and Lopthæna, I, 292 f.;
Grímr consenting to three demands of a hideous woman, she turns into his beautiful true-love, Lopthæna, who had been transformed by her step-mother (Gríms saga Loðinkinna).
Gríms saga Loðinkinna, I, 292 f.
Der Grindkopf, Italian tale, II, 513 b.
Gromer, Sir, Sir Grummore Grummorsum, Gromer Somer Joure, etc., I, 289, and n., 290, and n.; V, [289] b.
Growth, marvellous, and other precociousness, especially in heroes of tales and romances, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, [226] a, [295] a.
Guapos, Spanish ballads of, III, 49.
Gudeman of Ballengeigh. I, 404.
Gudrun, I, 94 n., 95 n.
See Kudrun.
Guenever, Arthur’s queen, I, 257 f., 260-3, 271-3, 279 n., 283, 293, 296; II, 43 n.
Guerino, son of the King of Sicily, tale of Straparola, V, [46].
Die Hahnkrähe bei Breslau. Silesian tale, I, 196 n.
Haig, James, IV, 281.
Hair, worn loose or in a braid by maid, bound up by married woman, II, 64 n., 69, 74 (D 3, E 3), 78 (5).
Hair, woman’s, added to a rope to lengthen it, I, 40;
man’s, III, 516 b;
sea-king’s daughter makes a rope of sixty ells’ length with her hair; maid with hair a hundred fathoms long, I, 486 (both used to draw a man out of a well or pit);
maid’s hair long enough to climb up by, I, 486 f.;
woman’s hair five quarters long, III, 437; IV, 167 f.;
man’s hair three, five, quarters long, IV, 172-4.
Hair:
woman ties her hair ronnd her dead husband’s, lover’s, waist, hand, and carries, draws, him home, IV, 166-8; V, [255];
ties his hair (five quarters long) to her horse’s mane and trails him home, IV, 173;
twines his hair (five quarters long) round her hand and draws him out of a river, 174;
twines her hair about his waist and draws him out of a river, 179.
Hair of maid substituted for mistress cut off and exhibited as token of conquest of the supposed mistress’s virtue, V, [22], and n.
Hálf’s, King, ship saved from foundering by man jumping overboard (and drowning), II, 15.
Hálfs saga, I, 95.
Hall.
See under Family Names.
Hall, Dicky, delivers his brother Archie from jail, III, 487-9, 492-4;
he is assisted by Jocky Hall, III, 487-9;
Jocky is the leader and Dick second, 489 f., 491 f.
Hall, knights and others riding into, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a;
horses stabled in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 510 f.; III, 508 a.
Halloween, I, 342, 25, 344, 24, 345, 6, 346, 16, 347, 8, 349, 9, 351, 30, 352, 8, 507, 1, 2; III, 505, 11; IV, 456, 458 (eve of All Saints, when fairy folk ride);
hemp-seed sown by girls for a vision of their true love, V, [59], [286] a.
Hamilton.
See under Family Names.
Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrew’s, III, 442, 445 f.
Hamilton, Mary, maid of honor to Catharine, Tsar Peter’s wife, her history, III, 382 f.;
agreements with the Scottish ballad, 383.
Hamilton, Mary, in the ballad, scorns the offer of life after having been put to public shame, III, 386, 388;
historical foundation for the ballad of Mary Hamilton (No 299), views of Andrew Lang, the affair of the Frenchman and the Queen’s apothecary, V, [298] f.
Hamiltons in Russia, III, 382 f.
Hanpang and Ho, Chinese story, II, 498.
Hans ohne Sorgen, tale, I, 408, and n., 409 n.
Hans Sachs, I, 196 a, 267; II, 40 n., 42; III, 258; V, [210].
Haraldr Harðráðr, III, 17.
Hardy, Spence, Manual of Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Harlaw, Battle of, ballad, III, 316 ff.
Harp, power of, I, 216 f., 439; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; V, [220] b, [293] a;
everybody harped to sleep but the king’s daughter, etc., I, 55; II, 137, 139 f.; V, [220] b;
all the lords harped asleep, IV, 18-21;
Quintalin’s harp decoys women, I, 50;
harp, viol, or fiddle made from drowned maid’s body, I, 121 f., 126-35;
or from tree into which the drowned girl had grown up, 121, 124, 493 b;
the instrument of itself, or when played upon, reveals that the girl was drowned by her sister, 122, 126-35.
Harpkin, I, 21.
Harribie (Harraby Hill, about a mile from Carlisle, formerly the place of execution), III, 463 f., 472.
Hass-Fru, Swedish tale, I, 461 n.
Hatherof==Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 192.
Hawk, riddle of: if not in good order, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191, and n.
Head, Halewijn’s, Roland’s, Gert Olbert’s, Jan Albert’s, Schön-Albert’s, speaks after it is cut off, I, 25, 26, 30, 49, 485 f.
Heads of men who have failed in an enterprise displayed on castle walls, or on palisades of stakes, with one place left, pour encourager les autres, I, 417 n.; II, 507 b; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, [291] a (three stakes for three adventurers, V, [216]).
Heads of thirty Portuguese sent home, salted, by Sir Andrew Barton, to be eaten with bread, IV, 502, 505.
Heart, lover’s heart cut out and sent to his mistress by her father, or husband, V, [29-38], [303];
the heart is sent cooked and is eaten by the lady, [31-34];
heart (stewed) of a girl given her husband by jealous wife, [34];
heart served by twelve husbands to their twelve wives, [34].
Hearts, children’s, man who had devoured nine would have power of flying, I, 34 n.
Herr Peder den rige, Scandinavian representative of Young Beichan, I, 459-61.
Der Herr von Falkenstein, tale, I, 459 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.
Das Herz, Das Herzmäre, rhymed tale of Konrad von Würzburg, V, [33], [303] b.
Herzog Ernst, I, 197 n.
Herzog Heinrich der Löw, Historia, of Hans Sachs, I, 196; V, [210].
Hey trollie lollie love is jolly, from a Yule medley, IV, 93.
Heykar, Geschichte des weisen, I, 11 n., 12 f.
Heywood’s Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, I, 85.
Hideous woman will answer questions for Arthur (or other), whose life is at stake if he does not give the right reply, only on condition of her marrying Gawain, or the young man who is in danger, I, 289, 291, 292, 294;
she turns into a beautiful young girl on being allowed to have her own way, 290, 291, 292, 295 f.;
hideous woman, magically transformed, restored to her proper beauty by being allowed to have her whole will, I, 293, 297-9;
hideous woman converted to beautiful one on being married to her will, I, 507 a.
Highlander induces a Lowland lass to marry him in spite of the opposition of her parents, IV, 256-75, 524;
he pretends that his father is a shepherd, his mother a dey, etc., but after putting her to a severe trial turns out to be a gentleman of wealth and importance, a Macdonald, 255-66, 524 (Donald, Earl of the Isle of Skye, 271 f., 274 f.);
Highlander preferred by girl to Lowland man or English, IV, 267;
Highlander induces girl to go with him regardless of her father’s opposition, V, [165] f., [306].
Hildebrandslied, I, 196.
Hildesage, I, 94, and n., 95 n.
Hildina, in Shetland ballad, I, 94 n., 95 n.
Hill-king:
see Dwarf-king, Merman, Hind Etin.
Hill-maid promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to her, I, 314, 375; III, 504 a; V, [214] b.
Hind to be spared by hunter, I, 178, 183, 502 a; II, 156 f.
Hind Etin represents the dwarf-king, elf-king, hill-king of Scandinavian and German ballads, I, 361: Hind Etin (Young Akin) seizes on a king’s daughter in a wood, keeps her seven years in a cave, where she bears seven sons; the eldest one day asks the father why his mother’s cheeks are always wet and learns her story; hearing music while hunting he is moved to take his mother and brother with him, and they come to the king’s gate; they are kindly received, the wood is searched for the father, who is found tearing his hair, and the family live happily at court.
See Dwarf-king, Merman.
Hirlanda, volksbuch, II, 33 n., 43 n.
Das Hirtenbüblein, tale, I, 410.
L’Histoire de Moradbak, I, 11 n.
L’Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon, prose romance, II, 42.
Histoire de Sinkarib et de ses deux Visirs, I, 11 n.
Historia de Nativitate Mariae et de Infantia Salvatoris, II, 1, 2 n., 7.
De Historia van Florentina, etc., I, 268, 459 n.
Hjalmar, Odd and Anganty, II, 50.
Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 306 f., 315, 489 b.
Hobby Noble, chief in the rescue of John o the Side, III, 477-9;
helper, 479-83;
Hobie Noble betrayed to the English by Sim o the Mains, IV, 1.
Hobby-horse, III, 45, 47 f.
Hoccleve. See Occleve.
Hód, Hóde, the name, III, 47 n.
Holinshed, Chronicle of Scotland, II, 143; III, 2, 517.
Holofernes: Professor Bugge’s suggestion that the Halewyn ballad (No 4) is derived from his story, I, 51-54.
Home. See under Family Names.
Homer, Iliad, I, 84; III, 290 n., 306, 367;
Odyssey, I, 322 n., 338 n.; II, 441; III, 510 b; IV, 377;
Hymn to the Delian Apollo, I, 84.
Homildon, the battle of, alleged to have been “done” to requite the death of Percy in the Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 304, 310, 313 f.
Hood==Odin, I, 95;
old Carl Hood, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.;
Auld palmer Hood, IV, 445;
Síðhöttr, Deephood, I, 95.
Hood, Thomas, his Lost Heir, III, 234 n.
Hoodening, Hood==Hooden==Woden (Kuhn), III, 48.
The Hoodie, Gaelic tale, I, 290 n., 503.
Horn of elfin-knight inspires maid with longing for him, I, 15-17, 55;
so Quintalin’s harp, 50;
boon of blowing on horn (often asked by man in difficulty or about to be executed, and often three blasts), III, 122 f., 125, 166, 182; V, [2-6], [8], [127] (pipes, V, [3]);
see, also, III, 157; V, 279;
witch’s horn, I, 315; V, 215;
hornblower, hornblâse==witch, I, 314;
horn which will furnish any liquor that is called for, I, 266;
horn filled with pure water, the water turns to the best of wine, I, 263;
horn out of which no cuckold can drink, etc., I, 263 ff.;
horn and lease, tenure by, III, 360.
Horn, fastnachtspiel of the, I, 263.
Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, romance, I, 188, 191-3, 200, 269, 502 a; IV, 401; V, [287] b.
Horn et Rymenhild, French romance, I, 188, 190-3, 502 a.
Horn, Hind, ballad, I, 187 ff., etc.
Horn, King Horn, gest, I, 188-90, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401.
Horse, high-mettled, I, 199, and n.;
horse shod with silver before and gold behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, [224];
horse, old white cut-tail preferred to a choice among thirty fine steeds, II, 444 f., 450, 453 f.;
Walter of Aquitaine’s worn-out charger, II, 441; III, 276.
Horses stabled by knights in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 54, 510 f.; III, 508 a;
horses’ shoes reversed to deceive pursuers, III, 476 n., 479 f., 487, 489;
youth torn by four wild horses on the false charge of a woman, V, [157];
patrons of horses, St. Stephen, St. Eloi, St. Antony, I, 235 f.
Horsley, William, a bowman employed by Lord Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-3, 345, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.
Huon de Bordeaux, I complementi della chanson d’, I, 502 a.
Hugh Spencer, the ballad, resembles in a general way Russian bylinas, III, 276; IV, 499.
See Spenser.
Hugh Willoughby, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
Hugo, Emperor of Greece, Charlemagne’s visit to, I, 275-9.
Hume.
See under Family Names.
Hume of Godscroft’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, III, 292; V, [202].
Hunt, an English captain, released on oath by Sir A. Barton, joins Lord Howard in an attack on the Scot, trusting that God will forgive his perjury, III, 340; IV, 504.
Hunter’s (J.) identification of Adam Bell, III, 21 f.;
of Robin Hood, III, 55 f.
Hunting of the Cheviot has the battle of Otterburn for its foundation, III, 304.
Hyacinthus, flower from his blood, I, 99.
Hysmine and Hysminias of Eustathius (Eumathius), I, 270; II, 13 n.
Hystoria de la reyna Sebílla, Spanish tale, II, 40.
I cannot eat but little meat, song in Gammer Gurton’s Needle, V, [132] n.
I have a good old woman (wife) at home, tunes, III, 518.
I have a ȝong suster fer beȝondyn the se, riddle song, I, 415.
I have four sisters beyond the sea, riddle song, I, 415 n.
Il’ja of Murom, captain of the march-keepers, will allow no one to pass; has a fight with a young man who passes nevertheless; is worsted at first: cf. Robin Hood and the Potter, IV, 497 a.
Images in church turn their backs when abandoned woman enters, I, 231;
so when merman comes in, I, 365 a;
everything bows when merman’s (human) wife enters, I, 365 b.
Importance of asking brother’s consent to marry, I, 497 f.
Incestuous connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, [210].
Ingenuity a transcendental virtue of Mahāyāna Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Innocent blood turns, every drop, to a burning candle, I, 172; II, 39 b.
Interest on loan not obligatory, but the security forfeitable in case of non-payment, III, 52, 60 (85-7), 62 (121);
no interest paid by the knight to the abbot for the loan of £400 for a twelvemonth, III, 62;
present to Robin Hood of 20 mark for the same loan and time (besides 100 bows and 100 sheaf of long and handsome arrows), III, 62, 69.
King (queen) lets in maid (or other) that knocks, II, 387, 393, 459, 461 f., 471, 474 f.;
Lady, Lord Bangwill, Lord Barnard, Earl Percy, or some principal person, does this, II, 150, 184, 186 f., 187, 190, 253, 266 f., 284, 286, 383; IV, 467.
King visits Robin Hood in the disguise of an abbot, III, 74;
serves Robin Hood with a buffet upon Robin Hood’s missing the mark, is recognized, and pardons the outlaws on condition of their entering his service, 76.
King who regards himself as the richest, most magnificent, etc., in the world is told that there is one who outstrips him, and undertakes to see for himself whether this is so, threatening death to the person who has affirmed his inferiority in case this is disproved, I, 275, 279 n., 281, 282 f., 283, and n.; III, 17 n., 503 b. Cf. Robin Hood, III, 124.
King, young, nice about choice of wife (or his guardians), and the princess proposed to him won with difficulty, II, 51-5; IV, 463 b.
The King and the Barker, rhymed tale, V, [68], [69] n., [78].
The King and the Cobbler, a prose history, V, [74], and n.
The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Dodsley’s drama, V, [75].
King Alisaunder, romance, V, [297]. See Alexander.
King Edward and the Hermit, rhymed tale, V, [72], and n.
King Edward Third and the Shepherd, rhymed tale, V, [71], [72] n.
King Edward the IIIJth and a Tanner of Tamworthe, A merye, pleasant, and delectable history betwene, V, [68], [81].
King Heiðrekr and Gestr, their riddle-contest, I, 405, and n.
King Henry II and the Abbot, story in Giraldus Cambrensis, V, [72].
King Henry II and the Miller of Mansfield, V, [69], and n.
King Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading, The pleasant History of, I, 404.
King Horn, gest, I, 188-91, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401; V, [287].
King John and the Bishop, similar tales, I, 405-10; II, 506 f.; IV, 459 b; V, [216] a.
King Orfeo, romance and ballad, I, 215 ff.; II, 500; III, 502; IV, 451; V, [211].
King Rabssaldschal and his minister’s daughter-in-law, Tibetan tale, I, 12 f.
Der Königssohn und der Bartlose, Greek tale, V, [281].
Korolevič i ego Djad’ka, The prince and his Guardian, Russian tale, V, [281].
Korrigan, Breton fairy, refused by man whom she asked to marry her, gives him the choice of dying in three days or languishing seven (three) years, I, 379.
Kraljev sin, The King’s Son, Bosnian tale, V, [45] f.
Kranzsingen, riddles, I, 2 n.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Kron, das vasnachtspil mit der, I, 266.
Die Krone der Königin von Afion, meistergesang, I, 267.
Kudrun, II, 137 b.
See Gudrun.
Kullervo, story of, in Kalevala, I, 445.
Kung Lindorm, Swedish tale, I, 290 n.
Die Kunigin von Frankreich, dy der Marschalk gegen dem Kunig versagen wart, u. s. w., meisterleid, II, 40.
Diu Kunigin von Frankrich und der ungetriuwe Marschalk, German metrical tale, II, 40.
Den kydske Dronning, poem of Jeppe Jensen, II, 42.
Kyng Alisaunder, romance, II, 511 b; III, 306; V, [297].
Kyng of Tars, romance, II, 511 b.
Kyng Orfew, romance, I, 216.
Kynge Henry the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe, The story of, V, [67].
old English version, Lay le Freine, I, 216; II, 67 n.
Lai du Corn, I, 262 f.; II, 43 n., 511 b.
The Laird’s Jock (probable nephew of Johnie Armstrong) III, 462 f.;
rescues Jock o the Side, 479-83.
Lancelot, the Dutch, I, 260.
Lancelot, the French prose, I, 257 n., 267.
Lancelot, Sir, I, 295.
Lancilotto del Lago, I, 267.
Landres rímur, II, 40.
Lanet, I, 261, 266 f.
Lanethen Mantel, meistergesang, I, 261, 267.
Lanzelet, of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, I, 260, 308, 338.
Lass o Livingston, a song, IV, 232 n.
Last word, importance of getting, when contending with mischievous personages and in wit-contests generally, I, 11, 20-2, 485; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Launfal, I, 320 n., 339; II, 510 b.
Lay of Orfeo, I, 216; II, 500 a.
Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, Roxby’s, IV, 25.
Layamon, I, 67 n.
Lazarus.
See Dives and Lazarus, No 56 (II, 10 ff., etc.).
Leaf sent down a stream by a maid to warn mother, sister, that she is in danger, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Learning unco lair (lear), II, 118 f., 174, 178; III, 385; IV, 411; 467.
Leather, corpses enclosed in, III, 352 f.; IV, 507 a; V, [298] a.
Left shoulder.
See Shoulder.
Legenda Aurea, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505 a; II, 235, 507 a; III, 51, 294 n.
Legitimacy of children, test of, by swinging or dipping them in the Rhine, I, 271 n.
“Lenore,” ballads and tales, I, 487 n.; V, [59-67], [303] b.
Leper, black beggar, young lad, thrall, scullion, dwarf, put into noble lady’s bed, or introduced into her chamber, to incriminate her, II, 39-42, 44, 47.
Leprosy, blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, [285].
Mabinogion, I, 210, 266 n., 279 n., 281 n.; II, 51; V, [24] n., [216] a.
Mable, Book of, a prophetical book, III, 420, 422.
Macaire, romance, II, 40.
Macdonald.
See under Family Names.
Macgill of Lindores fights an Italian gladiator, II, 378.
Macgregor.
See under Family Names.
Madel, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 67.
Madonna substituted for Lazarus in the legend of Dives and Lazarus, II, 10;
Madonna and Jesus, III, 507 b.
Magdalen, legend of, I, 228 f.;
in southern ballads, I, 231 f., 504 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, [288] a;
singular episode from, in Golden Legend and in Digby Mystery of Mary Magdalene, I, 245 n.;
legend of Magdalen blended with story of the Samaritan woman and with that of the Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, [288] a.
Maid cuts off her pap to release a man from a serpent and heal the wound made in his body, the pap grows apace when she bears a son, V, [177];
maid leaps from castle wall into lover’s arms, II, 410, 413;
maid solicited by a man tricks him, and when safe jeers at him, II, 480-93;
maid (noble), to vex knight who has been adjudged to marry her, pretends to be a carl’s daughter, beggar’s daughter, II, 462-4, 467, 469 f., 471 f., 473 f., 476; IV, 494; V, [238] f.;
maid who has eloped with a pretended lover forced by him to strip, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442;
maid will not give her faith to two brothers successively, I, 89, 91, 376, 378 n.
Maid Marian, in ballads, III, 43, 46;
simply mentioned, 198, 209;
disguised, fights with Robin Hood disguised, 219;
in May-game and morris, 44-6;
in the plays of The Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, 46, 519.
Mallet, David, and his Margaret’s Ghost, II, 199 f.; V, [294] a.
Malleus Maleficarum, I, 489; III, 18.
Malory’s King Arthur (Morte Darthur), I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, [289] b; 298 a.
Man in danger of his life dressed by landlady as woman and set to baking, IV, 151-4;
man preparing to hang himself finds money, leaves the rope, with which the owner of the money hangs himself, V, [13];
man who flies from home on account of enormous crime, in his desperation commits his relations to miserable fates, I, 169 f., 445;
man who has assaulted maid, to marry her, if bachelor, be hanged, if married, II, 460 f., 464 (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.
Mandeville, Sir John, his (fictitious) Voyage and Travel, I, 308; III, 501; V, [209].
Les Manteaux, Caylus, I, 257.
Der Mantel of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 259 f.
Le Mantel Mautaillié, fabliau, I, 257.
Mantle and costumes enclosed between two nut-shells, I, 260, and n., 271.
Mantle, as chastity chest.
See The Boy and the Mantle, No 29, I, 257 ff., etc.;
Gaelic ballad of the mantle, I, 261 f.; V, [289] a;
the mantle of Karodes, I, 261.
Mantle Rhymes, see Skikkju Rímur, I, 264 n.
Már fights when both his hands are off, IV, 502 a.
Margaret Twynstoun, Twinslace, Vinstar, Weiksterne, frees her lover, Wemyss of Logie, condemned to death, by taking him through the royal bedchamber and letting him down from a window, III, 449 f., 452-5.
Margaret’s Ghost, David Mallet, II, 199 f.; V, [294] a.
Le Mari Confesseur, conte of La Fontaine, III, 258.
knows every banner, whether any man he has laid eyes on is friend or foe, can speak any language, and has the gift of prophecy, 419 f.
Marko Kraljević, II, 357; III, 499 a, 507 b; IV, 463 b.
Marr, house of, IV, 157.
Marramiles, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 279, 284, 287.
Marriage ceremony interrupted by lover, who takes the bride, IV, 412-14.
Marriage, forced, justified as happiest, IV, 244.
Marriage:
maid to wait, lover absent, seven (eight, nine) years and not marry, I, 189 f., 192-4, 459, 502 b;
maid and man parting, neither to marry for seven years, I, 191 n., 464 f., 473, 477, 480; II, 508; IV, 461;
man gives his troth to woman to marry no other for seven years, I, 469 f.;
man parting with his wife engages her not to marry again for seven years, I, 195 f., 198, 200 n., 462 (three cases);
for three, five, six, eight, nine or twelve years, nine years and nine days, year month and day, I, 194, 197, 199, 200 (and 499), 461;
Epirot and Albanian custom of betrothing or marrying early in youth and parting for long periods, I, 502.
Marriage, second, of wife prevented by sudden (often miraculous) return of husband, I, 194-200, 502 f.; II, 499 b; III, 501; IV, 450 b; V, [210] b;
betrothed maid arrests marriage of lover to another woman, I, 502 f.
Marriage-contract, seigneur miraculously conveyed home on the eve of his wife’s marrying identifies himself by producing one half of his marriage-contract, which fits the other half left with his wife, II, 499 b.
Marriages, unequal:
serving man preferred by Lord Arundel’s daughter to Lord Phenix, II, 441-55;
lady refuses nine gentlemen for servant-lad, ploughman, IV, 172 f., 522; V, [255];
Earl of Wigton’s daughter marries footman, IV, 292-9; V, [270];
lady of birth and fame loves a kitchenboy, IV, 403-8; V, [277] f.
Martial, Epigrams, IV, 186.
Mary, Mild, II, 309, 315;
Mary Mild, Myle, Moil, II, 72; III, 386, 395 f., 398 a; IV, 507 f., 510 f.;
Memering, Mimmering, Mimmer, Mimecan, smallest of men, champion of Gunild, II, 34-8.
La menta y’l Gaitx, Catalan tale, n, 510.
Merfolk apt to be ferocious, I, 366 n. (see 365 b, 366 a).
Merlin, Roman de Merlin, I, 257 n.; II, 113; IV, 454 a (English prose romance);
(in Arthour and Merlin), IV, 479 b.
Mermaid, sight of, bad omen for ships, II, 19, 29 f., 32, 510 b; V, [149-52];
one has betrayed seven ships, II, 19.
Mermaiden affects man with some mortal ailment, I, 387-9 (probably incited thereto by his inconstancy: see I, 372).
Merman entering church, all the images turn their backs; when woman who has perforce been the merman’s consort enters church, everything in it bows, I, 365.
Merman takes maid (princess) to the sea-bottom, where she lives some eight years and has children; hearing the bells of home, she longs to go to her mother and is allowed to pay her a visit, taking her children with her; merman comes for her, she refuses to return; merman says they must divide the children, three and three each, and half of the seventh, I, 364 f.;
merman tears the children to pieces and hangs himself, 366.
See Dwarf-king.
Merman’s human wife, allowed to visit her mother, must not bow when the priest pronounces the holy name, or make an offering, I, 364;
must not stay for the benediction, 366.
Message (deceptive) from dying man or woman to father, mother, etc., or prohibition of information to these of fact or manner of death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460 a, 508-10, 512 f.; V, [247].
Message repeated, II, 265 f., 268 f., 270, 272, 366;
message sent down a stream by a leaf, or linden shavings, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione and Messer Guiglielmo Guardastagno, Boccaccio’s tale of, V, [33].
Messer Torello, Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197.
Messire Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Raguidel, romance, I, 257 n., 260; II, 51.
Munday, A., and Chettle, H., play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 129, 519 b.
Murder, compensation in money for, II, 297 f.;
disclosed by harp or fiddle made or furnished from parts of the body, or by pipe made from bone, or from plant growing from the body, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, [208] b, [286] a.
Murder, revenge for, II, 297 f., 300 f., 304-7.
Murdered boy appears immediately as bird and reveals that his brother had killed him, I, 126.
Murdered man’s body will emit blood upon being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143.
Murray.
See under Family Names.
Murray, Bonny Earl of, murder of at Donibristle, III, 447-9, 456.
Music, harp, pipe, flute, song, powerful effects of, on animate and inanimate nature, II, 137;
soporific influence, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V, [220] b, [293] a;
music, seductive, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17; 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 367, 485; IV, 441; V, [285].
Mužíčenko s Kulačenko, The little Peasant, Russian tale, V, [281].
Mythical interpretations of the story of Adam Bell, etc., and of Robin Hood, III, 21, and n.; 47 f., and notes.
Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I, 265 n.; III, 498 a.
Mærþöll, Icelandic fairy tale, I, 392.
Naisi (Naois) and Deirdre, Gaelic story, III, 498 b.
Naked man, injured husband will not kill a, II, 245, 247-9, 251, 253-6, 258; IV, 477 f.
Naming, enfeebling or destructive effects of, on men engaged in fight, on the devil, trolls, nixes, the horse Blak, a berserkr, the avenging sword, enchantment, etc., I, 3, 5, 89-92, 95 f., 489 b; III, 498 a; IV, 443 a; V, [207] b, [285] b.
Nashe, Thomas, III, 461.
Nasr-eddin Hodja, Les plaisanteries de, Turkish tale from, I, 410.
Neh-Manzer, ou Les Neuf Loges, Persian tale, I, 489 a.
Nereid, captured by resolute perseverance, despite changes of shape, I, 337.
Nereids, Greek, likeness to northern elves and fairies, I, 314;
euphemistic titles for, ib., and n.;
special trees endanger taking by, for those who lie under them, I, 340.
Net, riddle of: if net has taken fish, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191 n.
Neville.
See under Family Names.
Newborn (unborn) children speak, III, 367, and n.; IV, 507 a.
Nibelungenlied, II, 143, 236.
Nicodemus, gospel of, I, 239, 240 n.
Nighean Righ fo Thuinn, The Daughter of King Underwaves, Gaelic tale, I, 297 f.
El niño de Guardia, El santo niño de la Guardia, III, 241 b; IV, 497 a.
Nisami, his poem of The Seven Figures or Beauties, I, 417.
Nix killed by maid with a knife, I, 23 n.
No Song, no Supper, musical entertainment, by Prince Hoare, V, [96].
Noble, Hobie, ballad, IV, 1 ff.
Nonplussing:
fool wins princess by dumfounding her, I, 20, 418 a, 485 a; II, 507 b;
carlin foiled by boy getting the last word, I, 20; III, 496 a;
Fin by Harpkin, I, 21;
fause knicht (devil) by boy, I, 22, 485 b;
king’s son by Tsano d’Oymé, IV, 440 b.
Noon-sprite, German, I, 484 a;
Slavic, IV, 440 b.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν and Mittagsfrau.
North side of burial grounds for unbaptized children, II, 498.
Northumberland, the betrayal of the Earl of, III, 409, 411-14.
Norton, Christopher, III, 404 f.
The Nortons, their part in the Rising in the North, III, 403-6;
the father and two of the sons go to the Low Countries, 418;
the father and four sons said to accompany the Earl of Westmoreland to Spain, 419, 421.
Pair ride (go) a long distance and never speak, I, 41-4; III, 497 b; V, [207] a, [285] a. (In French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic ballads, not English.)
Pal greive, false, I, 91 f., 95 n.
Palace of Pleasure, Painter’s, I, 269; V, [13], [29].
Palanus, L’histoire de, Comte de Lyon, from romance, II, 42.
Pantschatantra, I, 270, 339 n., 402 n.; II, 499; V, [14], [107].
Paradise in modern Greek quite equivalent to Hades, I, 322 n.;
paradise or wonderland, maid lured away by promise of being taken to one, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Parents, etc., not to know of death of son, daughter, or of the manner of it, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, [247].
Parting, Epirot or Albanian custom of, for a long time after betrothal or marrying, I, 502 b.
Partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;
quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509 f.
Parts exchanged in different versions of stories, man for woman, etc., I, 459; II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 b; IV, 186 a, b, 481 f.; V, [47], [213], [233] f., [296].
Passional, das alte, I, 242 n., 505 a.
Patrañuelo of Timoneda, I, 408.
Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s, I, 257 n.
Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst, I, 407, 410; III, 53, 208; V, [13].
Pausanias, I, 84; III, 503.
Du Pauvre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
A Peat carried to school by boy as a contribution to the firing, I, 21 f.
Picken, Andrew, Traditionary Stories of Old Families, V, [207].
The Pilgrim to Compostella, Southey’s tale, I, 238.
Pinkie Cleuch, Battle of, III, 378.
Pipe, fiddle, made from tree growing out of murdered girl’s grave, or from reeds from murdered boy’s grave, or from bone, bones and skin, of murdered boy, reveals the murder, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, [208] b.
Piping, young man obtains from the devil the power of making women follow his, I, 47.
Pirie’s chair, the lowest seat o hell, I, 439, st. 31.
Pitto, alias Carellus, II, 39.
Placability of the King in Adam Bell, the Gest of Robin Hood, and the tale of Gamelyn, III, 22.
Plague in Scotland, IV, 76 f.
Plants from graves, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 379 n., 489 f., 492, 496 b, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498 b; III, 498, 510 b, 515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, [31], [207], [224], [226], [262], [285] f., [293], [295] a;
plants from graves, or from dead, with inscriptions, I, 96 f., 99; III, 239.
Pliny, Historia Naturalis, III, 503.
Pluck-buffet, III, 55, 75-7.
Plutarch, Septem Sapientum Convivium, I, 13;
Life of Numa, III, 496.
Poisoning, I, 153-65, 375, 498-501; II, 284-7, 499 a; III, 259, 261, 264, 499 b; IV, 427 f., 449 f., 498; V, [208] f., [242], [286] b, [295] a;
poisoning of young man by sweetheart, wife;
child by grandmother, stepmother, I, 152 f., 158-66, 498-501; IV, 449 f.; V, [209], [286] b;
son poisoned by mother on account of his marrying unacceptably, II, 284-7;
mother attempting to poison son’s wife, the pair exchange cups, and son is poisoned, I, 155 f.; III, 499 b; V, [295] a;
mother poisons son’s wife, I, 156 f.;
poisoning of false lover by his former mistress, IV, 427 f.;
brother poisoned by sister to remove an obstacle to her passion, Slavic and Lithuanian ballads, I, 156 b, 499 a; II, 499 a; III, 499 b; V, [286] b;
poisoning with snakes (“eels,” “small fishes”) as food or with their virus in drink, I, 153-65, 498-501; III, 499 b; IV, 449 f.; V, [209];
with the venom of a toad, I, 154, 157;
poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375.
Poludnitsa, Russian sprite, I, 14 n.
Ponthus of Galyce, The Noble History of, prose romance, III, 179.
Porter thirty years and three, I, 284, 465, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479;
porter or warden has his neck wrung, is run through, etc., III, 25, 95 n., 100, 480, 482;
Horn throws him over the bridge, I, 190.
Posing of princess by fool (who gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b.
Potter, disguise as, assumed by Hereward, Wallace, Eustace, Robin Hood, III, 109.
Du Povre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
Precocity of body and mind in heroes and champions, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, [226] a, [292] a, [295] a.
Prevarications of woman who is discovered to have been visited by a lover (not a knight, but a maid; maid wears sword? not a sword, but a bunch of keys, etc.); in tragic ballads, II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a;
Priests, five hundred, say mass at Durham field and afterwards take part in the fight, III, 286.
Primaleon, I, 269.
Primrose (a place), II, 212.
Prince, figuring as a menial, is successful in a thrice repeated battle, tourney, race, task, after which he is in condition to reveal his rank and history, V, [44-7].
Prince Calaf, Persian story, I, 417.
Prince Peter of Murom and his wife Fevronija, Russian legend, IV, 439 a.
Prince who invites an angel to his wedding, legend, V, [290] a.
La Princesse et sa Nourrice, Greek tale, I, 489.
Prior of St Mary abbey withstands the cruelty and greed of the abbot, III, 60.
Prodigal son recommended by his father to hang himself; the rope pulls down a concealed treasure; the prodigal reforms, V, [12] f., [19] f.;
prodigal son remembers a paper left by his father, or a key left by his mother, by which he receives money, V, [15-18].
Propertius, II, 236 n., 502 a.
Protesilaus, I, 99.
Protevangelium of James, I, 271.
Proud porter, I, 284, 464, 465, 467, 470, 472, 474, 479, 481; II, 53, 369-71, 468, 475; V, [219].
Pseudo-Matthew’s Gospel, I, 271; II, 1, 7.
Pšezpolnica, the Wendish, I, 484 a.
Punishments (unusual):
rolling down a declivity in a spiked barrel, tun set with knives, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32;
ransom of five thousand, five hundred pound, ten thousand, one thousand, five hundred crowns, contributed by bystanders for a wife to save her husband’s life, IV, 127, 129-31, 133, 135, 137, 139.
ring, or half-ring, thrown into a cup of wine drunk of by woman, serves to identify husband or lover returned after long absence, I, 190 f., 194-8, 200, 202-7, 502 b, 503 b; V, [5], [287] b;
halves of ring run together, join of themselves, I, 194 f., 198; II, 66 n.; IV, 463 b;
ring-stories, similar (not noticed in detail), I, 503 a, 508 b; IV, 450 b;
ring, or arm bent into a ring, magical revelations made by looking through, III, 411; V, [299] b;
bribing to secrecy with an arm-ring, II, 51, 54 (?).
Der Ring ehelicher Treue, German tale, I, 198.
Der Ritter Galmi mit der Hertzogin auss Britanien, play by Hans Sachs, II, 42.
Ritter Galmien, vom, volksbuch, II, 42.
Der Ritter von Staufenberg, I, 372-4, 387; III, 52 n.; V, [290] b;
after a happy and prosperous connection with an elf, marries, and dies within three days, I, 373 f.
Rizzio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Roads to heaven, paradise, purgatory, hell, fairy-land (some or all) pointed out by Fairy Queen to Thomas Rymer, I, 324 f., 328; IV, 454 f., 458.
See I, 359.
Rob Roy, ballad, IV, 243 ff.
Robber-ballads, klepht, Magyar, Russian, Italian, III, 49, IV, 497 a.
Robe and fee, chief-justice retained by, III, 52, 61 (sts. 93, 107).
Robert le Diablo, II, 303; III, 515 b; IV, 479 b.
Robert Earl of Huntington, Robin Hood represented as, in Munday’s play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, and in Munday and Chettle’s play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, and n., 519 b;
subsequently, in a pretended epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233, and in late ballads, II, 413 f.; III, 204, 218, 227.
The author of The Birth, Breeding, etc., of Robin Hood knows nothing of the Earl of Huntington, III, 214.
connection of his name with natural objects and archaic remains, III, 46 f., and notes; IV, 496 f.
his courtesy, III, 56, 58, 67, 69 f. (270-80), 74 f. (376-85), 229 f., etc.
ecclesiastics of all descriptions his chief prey (as of Gamelyn), III, 41 n., 51, 57, 67.
his epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233.
game, pageant, or the like, called Robynhode, III, 44, 518.
Gest of Robyn Hode, composition and argument of, III, 49 f.;
topography of, 50 f.
Golden Prize: forces two priests, who pretend to have not a penny, to pray for money, and finds 500 pounds on them, III, 209.
how characterized in the older ballads, III, 43.
husbandmen and yeomen favored by him, III, 57, 69, 221, 230.
identified by J. Hunter as a porter in the king’s household under Edward II, III, 55 f.
imitated by disorderly people, III, 41.
in danger from a bishop escapes to his band in the disguise of an old woman, robs the bishop of five hundred pounds, and makes him sing a mass, III, 192.
kills fifteen foresters when fifteen years old, III, 176.
kindness to the poor, III, 228 f.;
consideration for husbandmen, III, 57, 230.
Life of, in Sloane MS. 780, III, 46 b, n., 103, 121 b, n., 129, 173, 175.
loves no man so much as his king, III, 75.
marries Allen a Dale to his true-love in spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.
meets with his match, or is disgracefully worsted, ballads to this effect, III, 110, 123-5, 130 f., 134, 137, 140, 145, 151 f., 154, 156, 159, 165, 168, 171.
his name foisted into ballads which in no way belong to the cycle, I, 109, 302, 306, 412 f., 415-17, 421, 423.
the name Robinhood occurs 1380-81, IV, 496.
outlawed, III, 46 n., 228.
pay of his men:
twenty marks a year and two suits of clothing, III, 64 (with bounties, 75);
a noble every Sunday and a new suit every holy day, III, 126.
his piety and special devotion to the Virgin, III, 41 n., 51, 57, 59 f., 67 f., 93, 97 f.
plays, III, 41, and n., 44-6, 90 f., 108, 114 f., 122, 127 f., 134, 518 b;
plays or games of archery, IV, 496 b;
Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Nottyngham, III, 90 n.
the poor spared and befriended by, III, 41 n., 228.
Potter, Robin Hood and the, and Great Russian bylinas, IV, 497 a.
his profuseness, III, 69 f., 77, 228.
relieves an impoverished knight, III, 57-60;
will not take back a loan of £400, having been repaid by the Virgin, but gives him 400 more overpaid by the monk of St Mary, 69 f.
rescues Will Stutly, III, 16.
respect for women:
would do no harm to any company in which there was a woman, III, 41 n., 57, 109, 228;
will not suffer Little John to burn Kirklees (though the prioress has been his death), out of consideration for women, 105 f.
his spite against the clergy, reasons for it, III, 221, 228, 230.
stays with the king 15 months, sickens of the service, obtains permission to make a pilgrimage to a chapel at Barnsdale, remains in the greenwood 22 years, III, 77 f.
summoned by Queen Katherine to be of her side in a shooting-match with the king’s archers;
wins for her, III, 198-204, 206;
is graciously treated, pardoned, by the king, 200, 204.
takes gold from the king’s harbingers and presents it to the queen, III, 198, 200, 202.
theories assigning him an historical character, III, 43, 56 f.;
a mythical, III, 47 f.
turns fisherman, and takes a French ship, III, 211-13.
will not dine until he has some guest that can pay for entertainment, III, 51, 56, 58, 66 f.
will not eat or drink till he has seen a friar who, Scadlock says, will beat both John and Robin, III, 124.
will not take God (Jesus), Peter, Paul or John as security for a loan, but accepts the Virgin immediately, III, 59.
will not take small sums, or a man’s spending-money, III, 58, 66, 75.
a tune, III, 145, 150 n.;
Bold Robin Hood, a tune, III, 198.
Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters, tune, III, 133 n.
Salman und Morolf, Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, [3] f.
Salomon and Saturn, Anglo-Saxon, I, 2 n., 13 n.; II, 507 a.
Saltoun, Lord, and Auchanachie, ballad, IV, 347 ff.
Salve.
See Fairy salve.
Samaritan woman, story of, blended with traditions concerning Mary Magdalen and with that of The Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b;
with that of The Cruel Mother, without the Magdalen (Slavic), I, 230 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, [288] a.
Samson the Fair, saga, I, 50, 259, and n.
Samson’s, Solomon’s, and Hiram’s riddles, I, 404.
San Domingo de la Calzada, Spanish legend, I, 238.
Sången om den Friköpta, Estlander’s discussion of, IV, 482 a; V, [231] a.
Sant Oswaldes Leben, IV, 463 b.
El santa niño de la Guardia, III, 241; IV, 497.
Santo Antonio e a Princeza, Portuguese legend, II, 513 a.
Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, twentieth story of, II, 498 b.
Sark.
See Shirt.
Saxo Grammaticus, I, 67, 94 n., 323; II, 14 f., 127; III, 16 f., 411 n.
Scala Celi, III, 54.
Scalachronica, I, 261, 317; II, 19 n.
Scathelock (in all copies of the Gest but a), Scadlock, Scarlok, Scarlet, an original comrade of Robin Hood, and the most prominent after Little John, III, 56 f., 59 f., 66, 70, 92, 99, 104, 124, 129;
originally Young Gamwell (nephew of Robin Hood), according to late ballad, 146, 150;
kills one of three giants and marries a princess, 150;
finds his match, 169, 171;
identified in a life of Robin Hood with Allen a Dale, 173;
made the chief archer after Robin Hood, 197 n., 201.
Scott, Sir Walter (novels and poems), I, 210; II, 57, 227, 234, 512; III, 43, 367 n.; IV, 25, 106, 210, 218, 239, 244 f., 450, 463 a; V, [72] n., [74], [160].
Scroop, Lord, of Bolton, Henry, Thomas, Warden of the West Marches, III, 462, 469 f., 472-4; IV, 9.
Seals (Finns) capable of casting their skins and taking human shape, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
Sebilla, Sibilla, romances of, II, 40, and n.
Secrets revealed (sometimes after an oath of silence) to a stone, stove, a doll, a gelding, I, 488 a; V, [48], and n., [51] f., [56].
Security: the Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68 (249 f.);
God for security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.
Seductive music, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17, 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 485 b; IV, 441.
Shape, one by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, [39] f.
Sheath and knife signifying mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, [210].
Shee an Gannon, IV, 479 b.
Sheet, sark, smock (for the dead), one half cambric, the other needle work, one side of beaten gold, the other needle work, one half silk, the other cambric, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471, 485.
The Shepherd and the King, broadside ballad, V, [73].
Shepherd’s daughter (pretended) persists in marrying a knight whom the king has adjudged to her, II, 459-76;
makes him think her a beggar’s brat, carl’s daughter, 462-4, 466 f., 469-73, 476.
Sheriff and outlaws (especially the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood), III, 26, 28, 57, 63-6, 70-3, 93 f., 97 f., 100 f., 111-13, 117-19, 157, 180-7, 222-4.
Ship, in a bad storm, promised that gold shall be her hire if she will behave well, gold nails for iron, IV, 379 f.; V, [276];
silver and gold bolts driven in for iron and oak wanting, IV, 381 f.;
leaking badly, silken cloath and canvass stuffed in to calk her, II, 27;
wrapped round with feather beds and canvass, or canvass, and pitched, II, 28; IV, 379-82; V, [276].
Ships, intelligent and talking, IV, 376-80; V, [275] f.;
race of, forty-five, fifty-three, twenty-one ships, and all wrecked but one, IV, 378-82; V, [275] f.;
splendid ships, I, 72, 312, 474; II, 13, 30, 217 f.; III, 340; IV, 472; V, [285];
ships stopped or endangered; sinful parties, or other persons determined by lot, being thrown into sea, or put out of the ship, or confessing, or vowing offerings, or a captive being released, the voyage proceeds, I, 244-6; II, 13-16, 510 a; IV, 452, 463 a; V, [220] a, [288] a, [292] a;
ship stopped by serpents till a holy man whose instruction they desire shall be delivered to them; he throws himself in, the ship moves on, II, 13 f. n.
Shirt, custom of maid’s making one for her betrothed, V, [284];
significance of a man’s making such a request, [284];
Shoes slacked to run, II, 115, 177, 257, 313, 379, 395; IV, 398;
cast off to run, II, 125, 212, 287.
Shooting from boy’s (man’s) head of apple, nut, chessman, coin, and similar feats, III, 16-21.
Shooting under hand, III, 199, 202, 204.
Shoulder, looking over the left shoulder, I, 100 (twice), 103, 464, 490 (left collar-bane), 492; III, 259, 263 f., 339, 368 f., 413, 465, 488; IV, 11, 13, 15, 17 f., 20, 52, 135, 445, 518-20. (See V, [286] a.)
Sleep: man in deep (unnatural) sleep cannot be roused by maid at a critical moment; servant afterwards repeats to him what has occurred, I, 307, and n.
Sleep you, wake you, the formula, II, 240, 513 a; III, 514 a; V, [201] b, [225] b.
Sleeping potion given to woman by lover to enable her to escape from her husband, or lover to carry her off, V, [3] f., [6] f., [280];
sleeping potion taken by maid to enable her to escape to her lover, II, 358 (and evidently intended in other copies of the ballad, though not mentioned);
given by friendly hostess, to save girl’s honor, II, 356 b;
administered to a gallant who is to pass the night with a girl, I, 393; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b.
Sovereignty, her will, is what a woman most desires, I, 290-295; V, [289] b.
Sovereignty of Erin, given by a disenchanted hag to her deliverer, V, [289] b.
Sower, Legend of the (miraculous harvest), II, 7-9, 509 f.; III, 507 b; IV, 462 b; V, [220] a.
Spectral or elvish knights, combats with, II, 56 f., 511 a; III, 508.
The Spectre Bridegroom, Cornish tale, V, [59], [64].
Spell to recall a (dead) lover: boiling a dead man’s head, bones, carcass in a pot; burning a piece of the lover’s clothing, or a cat, in a hot oven, V, [61].
Spencer, Hugh, his (ballad) feats in France, III, 275 ff.;
various historical Hugh Spensers, 276.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, I, 267.
Der Spiegel, of Meister Alswert, I, 267 n.
Ein Spiel von dem Freiheit, I, 2 n., 415.
Spiked barrel, punishment of rolling down a declivity or dragging in, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, [48].
Ein Spil von einem Kaiser und eim Apt, farce, I, 407.
Spirits, or malignant uncanny beings, baffled, by scolding, or by getting the last word, I, 20-22, 485; II, 496 b; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Spring, lady whose lover is absent is to look every day into; if she sees his shadow, he is on the point of marrying another, I, 192.
Spring wells up where innocent maid’s head falls, I, 172.
Sprites, reviling or scolding of, an effectual way of baffling them, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b;
will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.
Spurningen, Norse tale, I, 418.
The Squire of Low Degree, romance, I, 255; II, 512 a; III, 501 a.
S. S., signature of No 150, III, 218 f.
Staffans-skede, diversion of Swedish boys at feast of St Stephen, I, 234 n.
Stanley.
See under Family Names.
Stephen and Herod, legend of, combined with legends of the infancy of Jesus, I, 233.
poisons child, I, 163-6; IV, 450 a; V, [209] a (see I, [154] f.).
Stev-stamme, I, 7 n.
Steven, Sir, I, 293, 295.
Steward, tutor or other servant, charged with the care of a young prince, or man of rank, forces a change of clothes and relative positions as a condition of drawing him up from a well into which the young noble had been let down by the legs (or of not drowning him in a river at which he was drinking), V, [44-7], [49], [54];
Strawberry Castle, II, 118 f., 121, 286, 442, 447, 452; IV, 466 f.
Stripping of maid by pretended lover who has carried her off, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442.
Stuart.
See under Family Names.
Stumps, fighting on, after the legs had been shorn at the knee, and fighting after other mutilations, III, 306, 310, 313; IV, 502; V, [244], [298] a.
Sturlaugs saga, II, 35 n.
Stutely, Will, one of Robin Hood’s troop in later ballads, III, 135;
rescued by Robin Hood from hanging, 185.
Substitution of maid-servant (sister) for bride to conceal unchastity, I, 64-8, 70, 73; III, 497 b;
substitution of maid-servant (niece) for mistress in cases of wagers against the mistress’s virtue, V, [22-4], [27].
Subterfuges of woman questioned as to evidences of her misbehavior, V, [88-95], [303-4] (comic); II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a (serious).
Südäi Märgän, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 486.
Suddene, kingdom of Murry, father of Horn, I, 188, 190.
Sulayman Bey and the Three Story-Tellers, V, [97].
Table jumped, kicked or thrown over, under the effect of exciting events or information, table furniture broken to flinders or hurled into fire, etc., I, 65, 217, 457 n., 465, 472, 475 f., 481, 502 a, b; II, 35, 94, 127 f., 128 n., 132, 205, 271, 273, 312 f., 511 b; III, 509 a; IV, 316, 345, 462, 508; V, [219], [271], [287] b, [292] b.
In Slavic ballads, bride jumps over four tables (and knocks over a fifth); husband, hearing news, jumps nine, I, 502 b; II, 511 b; III, 509 a;
person jumps seven and touches the eighth, V, [287] b.
Romaic, I, 97, 337, 401, 437, 461 n.; II, 127, 511 a; V, [39].
Roumanian, I, 85, 401.
Slavic, I, 124 f., 308, 401 f., 417, 484 a, 499 b, 507, 513 a; III, 52 n., 513 b; IV, 439 b, 440 b, 459 b; V, [2] f., [6], [46] f., [60], [74], [107], [241], [279].
Talismans:
ring with stone which by change of color, or breaking, signifies unfaithfulness of giver, I, 192, 201-7; II, 318 f.; V, [210] f.;
by rusting or dimming shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring which protects the wearer from all bodily harm, assures superiority in fight, doubles strength, keeps from sickness and captivity, I, 189, 190 f., 201 n.; V, [287] b;
gold-embroidered handkerchief, gold melting shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring, sword, chain, which will stanch blood or prevent blood from being drawn, II, 61, 318 f.; V, [183] f.;
the protective power of the ring conditional upon the wearer when in danger thinking of his leman, I, 189;
with his keeping faith, 190 f.
Talking Bird, Singing Tree, and Yellow Water, Arabian tale, I, 311.
The Talking Dish, Chinese drama, I, 126.
Tam o Lin, Tom a Lin, Tammy Linn, etc., popular verses about, I, 340; III, 505 b.
Tarlton’s Jests, IV, 495 a.
Tarn Wadling.
See Tearne Wadling.
Tasks and problems, difficult or impossible, I, 7-13, 15-20, 418, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, [205] f.;
impossible tasks propounded by man as condition of love or marriage, offset by others preliminary, equally difficult, proposed by woman, I, 7 f., 15-19, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, [205] f., [284] (an Elphin knight gives the tasks, I, 15-17;
an auld man, 18 f. (I), who represents the devil;
a dead lover, IV, 439 f., and the devil expressly, V, [283];
the maid would have been carried off had she failed). Similar requisitions, not conditional to marriage, met in the same way, I, 10, 13;
similar performances, ostensibly undertaken, to show the absurdity of a demand, I, 10, 11;
an assertion offset by another of the same extravagance, 13;
tasks in which no one of the only possible procedures is allowed, I, 8 f., 418;
problems ingeniously solved, I, 12 f.;
tasks propounded by one king to another, king rescued from attack or from a forfeit by the sagacity of his minister or minister’s daughter, I, 11 f.;
wife won by doing riddling tasks, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 418;
dead lover propounds tasks to his true-love; if she had not “answered” well she must have gone away with him, IV, 439 f.
Taubenliebe, Albanian tale, I, 338.
Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12, 269; V, [13].
Tay, water of, I, 127, 129; II, 21, 24, 96, 314, 462, 465, 471; III, 271; IV, 98, 100, 143 f., 193.
Tchînavar, the bridge, II, 235.
Tearne Wadling, I, 294.
Tears destroy the peace of the dead, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; IV, 474 b; V, [62], [294].
Tegau Eurvron, wife of Caradawc Vreichvras, I, 265.
Teind (teene), tribute: teind taken of fairies by the fiend at stated periods, I, 328, 339, 342, 344-6, 350, 353; III, 505 a; IV, 456, 458; V, [215] b.
Telfer, Jamie, ballad, IV, 4 ff.
Tell, William, III, 16 f., 18 n.; IV, 496 b;
his apple-shot, III, 13, 21 n.;
his name, 19 n., 21 n.
Tennis-balls in the ballad of Henry V, authorities, III, 321 f.;
parallel in Pseudo-Callisthenes, 322.
Testament, oral, or last wishes, of dying person, will good things to friends and ill things to the author of death, I, 143-50, 153-6, 158-60, 162 f., 166, 496-501; II, 498 b; III, 499; IV, 449; V, [208] f.;
without animosity to author of death, I, 144, 156;
other testaments, where there is no occasion for animosity, I, 144, 496 b; V, [291] b;
parodies of these testaments, I, 144 b; III, 499 b; V, [208] b, [286];
bequest of sorrow to wife and children and a curse to mother by a man who had been instigated by her to kill brother or father, I, 169 f.
Testament of fox, robin, ass, dog, etc., I, 144 b; V, [208] b, [286].
Tests (molten lead or gold, burning with red-hot iron, cutting off little finger, etc.) to determine the reality of a woman’s apparent death, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, [3], [6];
other tests, III, 517 b.
See Chastity.
Thales solves riddles, I, 13 n.
Thedel von Walmoden, poem and tale, I, 199 n.
Ther wer three ravns, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
Thetis, Proteus and Nereus made submissive by maintaining a firm hold through their various transformations, I, 337, 338 n.
Thévenot, I, 240.
Thirty pieces for which Jesus was sold, legends concerning, I, 243 f.;
history of, before birth of Jesus, 243.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, [243] b.
Thom of Lyn, a dance, I, 336.
Thomas, Gospel of, II, 7.
Thomas Cantipratensis, Bonum Universale, II, 235, 513 a.
Thomas of Erceldoune, Thomas the Rhymer, I, 317-19, 321 f., 335, 340;
his prophecies, 317;
Thomas of Erceldoune and Ogier le Danois, 319, and n., 320 n., 340; V, [290] a.
Thor, I, 283 n., 419;
Thor’s Hammer, I, 298.
Thor, Tor, Herr, see Tor.
Thorkill, his voyage, and visit to Guthmund, I, 323; II, 14;
his ships stopped till three men are delivered to expiate an offence committed, II, 14 f.
Das Thränenkrüglein, tale, II, 512.
Three cries allowed a maid about to be murdered, I, 32, 37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, [207], [285] a.
Three horses, successively ridden in an emergency, of which the first two give out, the third holds out, II, 116 f., 120 f., 309 n., 313; V, [228], [262] (all three burst, II, [212]).
Three hundred and sixty-five children at one birth, as punishment for slandering a woman who had borne twins, II, 67 f., n.; IV, 463 b.
The Three Ladies of Leithan Ha’, ballad of Cunningham, I, 142.
The Three Questions, a drollery, I, 418.
Þrymskviða, I, 298.
Thurston, Irish king, takes Horn into his service, offers Horn Reynild, his daughter, I, 189.
Top-castles in ships, III, 337 n., 340, 344, 349; IV, 504.
Tor, Thor, representative of Horn in a Danish ballad, I, 193;
rival, 193 f.
Torello, Messer, in Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197 f., 459.
Torrent of Portugal, romance, II, 510 b; V, [297] b.
La Tourandot, play by Carlo Gozzi, I, 417.
Towie, Castle or House, burning of, III, 424 f., 427 f.
T. R., signature of No 122, B a, III, 116;
of two copies of No 133, III, 156;
of No 169, B a, III, 371 (the last an absurd pretension).
Transformations:
maid transforms herself (or threatens to transform herself) into various shapes to escape the pursuit of a lover, who matches her at every step and finally prevails, I, 399-401, 402 f.; II, 506 b; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b; V, [216] a, [290] f.;
youth and maid (youth) pursued by sorcerer transform themselves variously, and finally escape apprehension, I, 401 b; III, 506 f.; IV, 459 b;
apprentice to a sorcerer, or fiend, pursued by his master, transforms himself variously and at last takes on a stronger shape and destroys his adversary, I, 401 f.; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, [290] f.
Transformations, after extraordinary concessions, of hideous woman, into a beautiful lady, I, 289-93, 295-9, 507 a; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, [289] b;
Transformations of step-children (generally to hideous and formidable shapes, to tree, serpent, fish, wolf) by malicious stepmother, I, 178, 290-3, 296 f., 306 f., 309 f., 312 f., 315 f.; II, 503-5; V, [214] f.;
linden-worm, snake, admitted to maid’s bed turns into a king’s son, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a;
witch transforms young man who refuses to be her leman into an ugly worm, I, 315.
Transformations, successive, of Tam Lin by fairies to prevent his disenchantment, I, 342, 344-9, 352 f., 355, 508; III, 505; IV, 457;
successive transformations of young girl, apparently of the same nature, I, 336 f.;
of nereid to avoid union with man, I, 337;
of Thetis, Proteus, Nereus to avoid doing man’s will, I, 337, 338 n.
Transformations:
disenchantment by a kiss, three times given (mostly) to a repulsive or formidable creature, or by the same, or by touching such, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b (partly), 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, [214], [290] a;
Queen of fairies restores young man who has been transformed into a worm by stroking him three times on her knee, I, 315;
see also Transformations, 2d and 3d paragraphs, above.
Transformations from and to human shape require immersion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342,344; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, [39] f. (Cf. holy water, I, [346], [351].)
Traugemundslied, I, 2 n.
I tre Indovinelli, Turandot tale, I, 417 n.
Trees, special, dangerous to lie under, on account of taking by fairies, I, 216, 340, 350; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; IV, 455 f.; V, [290].
Le Trésor et les deux Hommes, La Fontaine, V, [13].
Trespassing in a wood: pretence that a maid has been doing this, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, 367, 369, 450-3; III, 504; IV, 456 f. (a commonplace).
Die treue Frau, tale, I, 268.
Tristan, Sir Tristrem, I, 67, 98, 198 n., 264, 265 n., 284, 317, 487 a; II, 127; V, [33].
Tristan le Léonois, II, 510 a.
Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, I, 98, 487.
Les trois Frères, tale==Le Sifflet qui parle, I, 493.
Troth asked back by lover of true-love before he is put to death, II, 178;
Die vierzig Veziere, The Forty Vezirs, Turkish tales, I, 402; V, [13], [97].
Vigoleis with the Gold Wheel, Danish romance, I, 269 n.
Vila, Servian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, I, 229, 237; II, 13; III, 52 n.;
Speculum Morale, I, 405 f.;
Speculum Naturale, I, 339 n.
Virgil, Æneid, III, 306;
Eclogues, I, 415 n., 437 a.
Virgil, the philosopher, I, 267, 270, 392; II, 502.
Virgilius, English story, II, 502.
The Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68 (249 f.);
the Virgin finds mint, broom, chick-pea unfriendly (as to concealing her) during the flight into Egypt; sage, parsley, juniper, friendly; the swallow is friendly, the partridge, quail, beetle, hawk are unfriendly, II, 8 n., 509 f.; III, 507 b.
Les Visions d’Oger le Dannoys au royaulme de Fairie, I, 319 n.; V, [290] a.
Wager, to win a woman’s favor, of a man’s lands against her brother’s head, IV, 383-6; V, [276] f.;
wager of his head by a squire against a knight’s lands that the squire will win the knight’s wife, V, [25-8];
wager against a woman’s preserving her chastity (or dignity of character), strong evidence against the woman, she vindicates herself, V, [21-5].
Wager’s comedy, The Longer thou livest the more fool thou art, I, 340, 390.
Waldis, Esopus, I, 407; III, 208.
Wallace, Sir William, III, 43, 109, 211, 266-74; V, [242] f.;
distinguishes himself on the sea, III, 266;
aye a woman’s friend, III, 273;
disguises himself as a woman, III, 273 f.;
as a beggar, 271, 273;
Blind Harry’s Wallace, II, 265 f.
Walls and mouseholes, man who had killed twelve maids would be able to pass through, I, 34 n.
Walric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, III, 179.
Walter of Aquitaine, I, 95 n.; 106 f., and n., 493 a;
his worn-out charger, II, 441, 444 f., 450, 454; III, 276 f.; V, [243] b.
Waltharius (Walter of Aquitaine), I, 94, and n., 95 n., 106 f.
Waly waly, gin love be bonny, song, IV, 92 f.
Wamphray, Lads of, ballad, III, 458 ff.
Wand, silver, cast up by Northumberland as he sails away from Loch Leven, III, 413;
wand with lavrocks sitting, singing thereon, I, 201 f., 205, 503, as a present.
See Artificial curiosities.
Wand, straking troth on.
See Troth.
Wariston, Laird of, murder, IV, 28 ff.
Was ist das Schönste, Stärkste und Reichste? tale, I, 9.
Water:
lady forced to wade, steps in to the knee, the middle, the chin, I, 55 f.;
forced to swim (on horse), I, 112, 114;
woman (pregnant) follows knight (who is on horseback) through deep water, swimming or wading, II, 86, 88-90, 92, 94-7, 99, 459, 461 f., 464-6, 468, 471, 474 f., 476; III, 508 b; IV, 493; V, [221], [237];
goes into the Clyde to rescue drowned lover, IV, 190;
water comes to knee, middle, pap (neck), II, 88-90;
knee, pap, II, 94, 97;
ankle, knee, chin, II, 96; IV, 190.
Wax child to deceive woman who is delaying parturition, I, 82, 84, 86.
Ways, subterranean, to heaven, paradise, elfland, purgatory and hell (some or all), I, 324 f., 328, 359; IV, 454 f., 458.
Wearie’s Well, I, 55 f.
Webster, John, Dutchess of Malfi, IV, 117.
Wedding at kirk-door, II, 131.
Wedding procession:
bride insists on having four-and-twenty men before her, twenty (four-and-twenty?) on each side, and four-and-twenty milk-white doves to fly above her head, II, 132;
bride is promised four-and-twenty men to ride between her and the wind, four-and-twenty maids between her and the sun, four-and-twenty milk-white geese to blow the dust off the high way with their wings, II, 315;
Fair Annie going to her lover’s wedding has four-and-twenty knights by her side and four-and-twenty maids, as if she had been a bride, II, 183;
followed in some copies by four-and-twenty milk-white swans to blow the dust off the highway, II, 195 a;
four-and-twenty gray goss-hawks to flaff the stour from the road, four-and-twenty milk-white doves flying above her head and four-and-twenty milk-white swans her out the gate to lead, IV, 470.
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, romance, I, 289 n., 291 n., 298, 301, 315.
Wee man throws a huge stone a long way, I, 330-2, 334.
Der weise Mann, Armenian tale of the King John and the Bishop type, V, [291].
Der weise Mann und seine drei Söhne (Tausend and eine Nacht), V, [13].
Der weisse, der rothe, und der schwarze Hahn, V, [294] a.
Well: prince let down into a well by servant, who will not draw him up unless he consents to exchange positions, V, [45-7], [281].
Wells, at Carterhaugh, I, 341, 343, 347 (Lady well); IV, 457;
Richard’s well, II, 148, 150;
St Anton’s, Anthony’s well, IV, 93, 105;
St Evron’s well, I, 146;
St Johnston’s wall, II, 21;
Usher’s well, II, 238;
Wall o Stream, wells of Slane, I, 387 f.;
Wearie’s well, 55;
Well o Spa (Aberdeen), IV, 286.
Werewolves, III, 498 a.
Wernhart von Strättlingen, Swiss tale, I, 197; II, 499 b.
Westerness, Kingdom of Ailmar, father of Rymenhild, I, 188.
Westmoreland, Earl of, Charles Neville, III, 417;
takes refuge in Scotland, but, finding himself unsafe, goes to sea to seek his fortune, 419;
encounters Don John of Austria, and is taken by him to Seville; the queen makes him captain over forty thousand, to war against the heathen soldan, 421;
fights with the soldan and strikes off his head; the queen offers to marry him, but he informs her that he has a wife; she has him written down for a hundred pound a day, 422 f.
What women love best, or most desire, Arthur or other to say rightly, or suffer, I, 289, 291, 292, 293 f.
When? answers indicating never: when crows are white, swans are black, stones float, etc., I, 168, 437, 441-3, 448 f.; II, 507 b; III, 499 b; 507 b; IV, 94-6, 98-103; V, [173] f., [218].
White willow wand on the mast sign of a merchant vessel, III, 340, 344, 349; IV, 504.
White Ladies (German), I, 336, 338 n.
The Whole Prophecie (of Merlin, Thomas Rymer, etc.), I, 317.
The Widow’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 506.
Wie drey lantzknecht vmb ein zerung batten, tale in Pauli, III, 208.
Wife evades the inquiries of her jealous husband by explaining away suspicious circumstances, V, [88] ff., [281], [303] f.
Wife pays 10,000 crowns to save her husband from the consequences of an amour, IV, 356-8.
William of Orange, his gab and its performance, I, 277 f.
Willoughby, Hugh, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
Wine called for by girl about to be executed, to drink to her well-wishers and they to drink for her, III, 384 f. (cf. 388, 19, 20, 391, 13).
Wisákhá, the history of, I, 11 n.
The Wise Heykar, I, 12.
Wit-combats with little or no story, I, 2 n., 7, 8, 13; III, 496 a; IV, 439.
Witch can twist a rope out of flying sand, lay sun and moon flat on the earth, turn the whole world round about, twine a string out of running water, I, 83;
witch offers gifts to persuade young man to be her leman, I, 314.
Witchcraft imputed to noble ladies in Scotland in the 16th century, III, 410 f.;
professed by Lady Douglas of Loch Leven, 412.
Witches blow horns, I, 314 f.
De witte Swâne, tale, III, 501.
The wolf in England and Scotland, I, 434; III, 2, 4 f.; IV, 495 b.
Wolfdietrich, I, 182, 196, 201 n.; II, 127; III, 507 a, 515 b.
Woman irregularly wived discovered to be the sister of the bride of an attempted union, II, 66-70, 72 f., 75-7, 79, 82; IV, 463 b; V, [220] b;
woman (leman, waif woman) who expects to be discarded wishes her seven sons were seven rats, and she a cat, or seven hares and she a hound, and she would worry them all, II, 70 f., 75, 79, 81 (corruptions, 73, 77);
so of woman who has borne seven bairns to a man living in a wood (hill-man), I, 371.
Woman offers to fight for man, IV, 433, 444 f.
Women have long hair and short wits, I, 200 n.
Women, jury of, IV, 13 (3).
Wonderland or paradise, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.
Wood to come to see one king put another to death (cf. Birnam wood), V, [3].
Woodcock, beware thine eye, proverb, III, 199, 201.
Wooing of Etain, Irish tale, its correspondences with Sir Orfeo, II, 500.
Wrennok, III, 13.
Wrestling-match: prize, ram, ram and ring, III, 52;
bull, horse, gloves, ring and pipe of wine, III, 63.
The Wright’s Chaste Wife, English rhymed tale, I, 268; V, [100].