The science of fairy tales

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

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INDEX.

• Actæon, [71]
• Afghan legend, [183]
• Alsatian tales, [213], [216]
• American Indians, Tales of North, [268], [271], [314], [315]
• Ananci tale, [294]
• Animism, [25]
• Annamite tales, [200], [323]
• Arabian Nights Entertainments, [50], [69], [79], [84], [255], [260], [267]
• Arab tales (see [Arabian Nights Entertainments]), [202], [300], [316], [319]
• Ardshi-Bordshi, [81]
• Arthur, King, [205], [207], [211], [212], [234]
• Art of Story-telling, [1], [5], [20].
• • In Western Highlands, [5];
  • Brittany, [7];
  • Portugal, Brazil, Gascony, Wales, England, [8];
  • France, Sicily, [9];
  • Panjab, [11];
  • Cashmere, New Zealand, Polynesia, Greenland, [12];
  • among the Malagasy, Ahts, Indian tribes of Guiana, [13];
  • in India, [14];
  • among the Algonkins, ancient Germans, Anglo-Saxons, ancient Welsh, [15];
  • Arabs, Guslars, [16];
  • Swahilis, [176];
  • Eskimo, 12, [19].
• Ascension Day, [90]
• Aubrey, John, [148], [244]
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• Bahar Danush, [260]
• Ballafletcher, Cup of, [156]
• Bantik. See [Celebes]
• Bards, Welsh, [15]
• Baptism, superstitions concerning, [94], [101]
• Barrows, haunted, [141], [142], [146], [231]
• Basque tale, [293]
• Berchta, Dame, [70], [90]
• Blanik mountain, [184], [219], [220]
• Blood relationship among savages, [47]
• Bohemian tales, [56], [119], [175], [184], [219], [245], [251], [260], [294]
• Bona Dea, [84], [87]
• Bornoese tales, [300], [311], [324]
• Breton tales, [61], [62], [63], [65], [66], [67], [116], [138], [174], [190], [192], [293]
• Briar Rose, [247]
• Buddhist influence on tales, [295], et seqq.
• Bulgarian tales. See [Slavonic]
• Burmese tale, [267], [297]
• Burton, Sir Richard F. (see [Arabian Nights Entertainments]), [16]
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• Cabalists, the, a mediæval sect, [341]
• Carinthian tales, [173], [240]
• Cashmere, tales from. See [Indian]
• Celebes Islands, tale from, [267], [297]
• Changelings, [93], et seqq.
• Chinese superstitions, [97], [98]
• Chinese tales, [177], [178], [299], [300]
• Christening. See [Baptism]
• Christmas, [141], [142], [157], [159]
• Coals turned to gold, [49]
• Cologne, Three Kings of, [149], [150]
• Coptic tale, [181]
• Corpus Christi Day, [89]
• Corsican tale, [274]
• Cosquin, Emmanuel, [267], [297]
• Coventry. See [Godiva]
• Cretan tales. See [Greek]
• Cyclades, tale from. See [Greek]
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• Danish superstitions, [96], [99], [231]
• Danish tales, [40], [44], [50], [56], [67], [103], [114], [130], [131], [140], [141], [144], [151], [185], [213], [294]
• Dardistan, tale from, [49]
• Davies, Rev. Edward, [136]
• Dean, Forest of. See [Forest]
• Death, savage belief on, [27]
• Derceto, a Phœnician goddess, [324]
• Devil, the, [42], [47], [69], [263], [280]
• Diana, [71]
• Diedrich, [213], [233]
• Dobocz, the robber chief, [218], [233]
• Dracs of the Rhone, [65], [100]
• Duffus, story of Lord, [148]
• Dyak. See [Bornoese]
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• Edenhall. See [Luck]
• Edgehill, Battle of, [235]
• Edric the Wild, [302], [338], [340]
• Eggshells, changelings detected by, [153], et seqq., [125]
• Elidorus, tale of, [135]
• English superstitions, [96], [100], [205]
• English tales, [59], [61], [63], [64], [66], [68], [69], [106], [116], [124], [126], [139], [145], [146], [147], [178], [189], [211], [234], [244]
• Epimenides, tale of, [183]
• Eskimo tales, [137], [262]
• Esthonian tales, [201], [273], [280]
• Etiquette of various nations, [309], [321]
• Ezra, [182]
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• Fairy Births and Human Midwives, [37], et seqq., [59], et seqq.
• Fairyland, [43], [47], [161], [196], [222]
• Fairy Tales, definition of, [3];
• • divisions of, [22];
  • principles of explanation of, [32]
• Feather-robe, [258], [267], [268], [298], [300], [301]
• Females, kinship through. See [Kinship]
• Finnish tales, [259], [329]
• Fire, superstitions respecting, [96], [97]
• Forest of Dean, [78]
• Folktale (See [Art of Story-telling]), connection with folk-song, [14];
• • how to be reported, [21]
• Frazer J. G., [31], [249], [252]
• Frederick Barbarossa, [172], [213]
• French superstitions, [96]
• French tales (See [Breton]), [42], [47], [65], [114], [119], [272], [293], [324], [342]
• Frog, Fairy as. See [Toad].
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• Gaelic tales. See [Scottish]
• Gerald, Earl, [210], [233]
• German superstitions, [95], [96], [99], [108], [140], [143], [279], [281]
• German tales (See [Alsatian], [Pomeranian], [Rügen], [Swabian], [Transylvanian]), [48], [103], [113], [114], [118], [124], [126], [130], [137], [138], [139], [140], [142], [143], [149], [152], [172], [177], [185], [188], [192], [212], [214], [215], [216], [217], [238], [240], [241], [242], [243], [244], [259], [281], [327]
• Gervase of Tilbury, [65], [100], [145], [212], [234], [272], [284]
• Giraldus Cambrensis, [135]
• Gloucestershire (See [Forest of Dean, St. Briavels]), [145]
• Godiva, legend of Lady, [71], et seqq.
• Gold Coast, custom at, [86]
• Gold Coast, tales of, [313], [324]
• Gold, fairy, turns to dross, [50]
• Grateful animals. See [Buddhist]
• Gratitude, fairy, [48], [218], [312], [316]
• Greek superstitions, [99], [100]
• Greek tales, [55], [82], [242], [267], [269], [290], [317]
• Grey, Sir George, [12], [285]
• Grimm, [120], [140], [212], [213], [216], [233]
• Guiana, tales from, [261], [289], [297], [299], [324]
• Guernsey, tales from, [62], [66], [114]
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• Hades, food of, must not be eaten, [43], [44], [45], [47]
• Harold II., King, [72], [205]
• Hasan of Bassorah, tale of, [255], [291]
• Hebrew tale, [41], [55]
• Helpful beasts. See [Buddhist]
• Herla, King, tale of, [178], [234]
• Hero, the Hidden, the Sleeping, [205] et seqq., [228], [235]
• Hertha, a German goddess, [71], [89], [90]
• Hindoo customs, tales. See [Indian]
• Highland tales. See [Scottish]
• Holle, Dame, [215], [236]
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• Icelandic tales, [113], [193]
• Imagination among savages, [2], [33]
• Im Thurn, Everard, [13], [230]
• Indian customs, [84]
• Indian tales, [82], [227], [268], [296], [317], [318], [338]
• Iolo Morganwg, [207]
• Irish superstitions, [96], [121], [123], [210], [211]
• Irish tales, [50], [52], [63], [107], [116], [118], [122], [128], [196], [198], [202], [210], [211], [259], [314], [324], [338]
• Iron, dislike of supernatural beings to, [50], [97], [126], [164], [306]
• Irving, Washington, [177], [181]
• Italian superstitions, [99]
• Italian tales (see [Corsican], [Sicilian], [Tirolese]), [199], [293]
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• Japanese tales, [174], [178], [194], [273], [301]
• Jewish tales. See [Hebrew]
• Jeremiah the prophet, [181]
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• Kaffir tale, [328]
• Kan Püdäi, [42]
• Kathá-sarit-ságara, [318]
• Keats, [313]
• Kinship through females, [228], et seqq.
• Kirk Malew, Cup of, [155]
• Koran. See [Mohammed]
• Kurdish tale, [262], [292]
• Kurroglú, the robber-poet, [80]
• Kyffhäuser, [172], [214], [215], [229]
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• Lady Wilde. See [Wilde]
• Lapp superstitions, [108]
• Lapp tales, [38], [57], [173], [329]
• Liebrecht, Felix, [79];
• • his Ghost Theory, [337]
• Lithuanian superstitions, [96]
• Lithuanian tales, [104], [120], [220], [221]
• Li Kì, a Chinese classic, [321]
• Loo Choo Islands, tale from, [318]
• Longfellow, [187]
• Luck of Edenhall, [153]
• Luther on Changelings, [109], [124]
• Luxemburg, [240], [253], [324]
• Luzel, F. M., [7], [190]
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• Mabinogion, [188]
• MacRitchie, David, his Finn Theory, [349], et seqq.
• Mahábhárata, [317]
• Magyar tale, [260]
• Malagasy tale, [287]
• Malory, Sir Thomas, [205]
• Manx superstitions, [108], [210]
• Manx tales, [41], [106], [117], [155]
• Maori customs, [290]
• Maori tales, [45], [274], [285], [288], [289], [317], [319]
• Map, Walter, [178], [234], [302], [338], [340], [341]
• Marko, Prince, or King, tale of, [218]
• Marquis of the Sun, tale of, [264], [291], [293]
• Marriage settlements, Indian, [321], [322]
• Maundeville, Sir John, [111], [239]
• Meddygon Myddfai, [325]
• Melusina, [240], [253], [272], [273], [321], [324], [327]
• Merlin, [209]
• Messia, the Sicilian story-teller, [9]
• Metamorphosis, [26], [31]
• Midsummer Day. See [St. John's Day]
• Midwives, adventures of. See [Fairy Births]
• Minstrel in Middle Ages, [15]
• Mohammed, [182], [224]
• Mohel, adventure of a, [41], [55]
• Moravian tale, [274]
• Morgan the Fay, [43], [204]
• Morris, William, [239], [260], [261]
• Mother-right. See [Kinship]
• Myddfai, Physicians of. See [Meddygon]
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• Names, Savage feeling about, [309]
• Napoleon I., [206]
• Nereids, [55], [99], [242], [267], [317], [325]
• Netherlands, tale from, [188]
• New Guinea, tale from, [322]
• New Year's Eve and Night, [69], [248]
• New Zealand. See [Maori]
• Nightmare, the, [278], et seqq.
• Norwegian tales. See [Scandinavian]
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• Odin. See [Woden]
• Ogier the Dane. See [Olger]
• Ointment, Magical, [59], et seqq.
• Oisin, [196], [198]
• Oldenburg Horn, [149]
• Olger the Dane, [43], [204], [213]
• Omens, [30]
• Osburg, foundress of nunnery at Coventry, [90]
• Ossian. See [Oisin]
• Ovid, [71]
• Owen Glendower, [209]
• Owen Lawgoch, [209]
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• Parsees. See [Sad Dar]
• Peeping Tom. See [Godiva]
• Peleus. See [Thetis]
• Perrault, [247]
• Pitré, Dr., [9], [53], [192]
• Pliny, [86], [183]
• Pomeranian tales, [48], [51], [141], [217], [237], [242], [243], [251], [262], [281]
• Polynesian tales, [44], [45], [267], [319], [324]
• Portuguese superstition, [206]
• Portuguese tale, [181]
• Princess, the Enchanted, [237], et seqq., [262]
• Proserpine, [43], [48]
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• Revenge, Fairy, [52], [59], et seqq., [65], et seqq.
• Rhys, Professor, [37], [64], [66], [110], [163], [164], [188], [231], [325], [330]
• Rip van Winkle, [177]
• Robberies from Fairyland, [135], et seqq.
• Roger of Wendover. See [Godiva]
• Roman superstition, [96]
• Russian tales, [119], [259], [265], [294], [298], [344]
• Rügen, Island of, tales from, [71], [89], [127], [152], [236]
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• Sad Dar, a sacred book of Parsees, [96]
• Samoyede tale, [268]
• Savage ideas, [22];
• • evidence of, [32]
• Savages, imagination among, [2]
• Saxo Grammaticus, [44]
• Scandinavian tales (see [Icelandic], [Danish]), [38], [115], [142], [150], [155], [217], [258], [281], [294], [318]
• Scottish superstitions, [94], [95], [96], [127], [133]
• Scottish tales, [55], [61], [98], [105], [111], [112], [118], [120], [121], [122], [125], [127], [130], [131], [132], [144], [148], [165], [166], [167], [180], [186], [241], [266], [293], [312]
• Sebastian, Don, [206]
• Sébillot, Paul, [67]
• Seven Sleepers, the, [182]
• Siberian tales, [42], [169]
• Sicilian superstitions, [100], [111]
• Sicilian tales, [53], [192], [212], [299]
• Siegfried, or Sigurd, [212], [247]
• Sikes, Wirt, [64], [123], [137], [165], [278]
• Simrock, Karl, [101], [116]
• Slavonic superstitions, [206], [279]
• Slavonic tales (see [Bohemian], [Russian], [Lithuanian]), [218], [266], [267], [298], [312]
• Southam, procession at, [85]
• Southey, [187]
• Spanish superstitions, [100], [205]
• Spanish tales, [187], [226], [264], [294], [315], [325], [339]
• Spirits, doctrine of, [25], [42]
• St. Augustine, [100], [235]
• St. Briavels, custom at, [78], [87]
• Stephens, Professor Dr. Geo., [150]
• St. John's Day, [214], [236], [238], [248]
• Story-telling, Art of. See [Art]
• Stoymir, the Knight, [220], [233]
• Swabian tales, [39], [52], [147], [244], [245], [253]
• Swan-maidens, [202], [255], et seqq., [283], et seqq., [337]
• Swedish tales. See [Scandinavian]
• Swiss tale, [49]
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• Taboo, [270], [302], [304], [305], [306], [309], [311], [312], [318], [320], [337]
• Tacitus, [15], [71], [89]
• Tam Lin, ballad of, [242]
• Tawhaki and Tango-tango, tale of, [285], et seqq.
• Thetis, [242], [317], [329]
• Thomas of Erceldoune, [43], [102], [103]
• Time, supernatural lapse of, [161], et seqq., [196], et seqq., [222], et seqq.
• Tini-rau, tale of, [286], et seqq.
• Tir na n 'Og. See [Oisin]
• Tirolese tales, [70], [184], [274], [293], [315], [325], [329], [348]
• Toad or frog, fairy as (see [Princess]), [51], [52], [53], [338]
• Totemism, [27], [324], [331], [346]
• Tradition, definition of, [34]
• Traditions, variable value of, [4], [24]
• Transformations, doctrine of, [26], [31]
• Transylvanian tales, [52], [176], [189], [246], [258], [347]
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• Ulrich von Rosenberg, [220], [233]
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• Van Pool, Lady of the, [274], [325], [330]
• Vikramâditya, [81]
• Vitra, [38]
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• Wäinämöinen, [45]
• Waldron, Geo., [41], [108], [156]
• Wastin of Wastiniog, tale of, [302]
• Welsh superstitions, [110], [126], [207], [209]
• Welsh tales, [37], [62], [63], [103], [113], [115], [122], [123], [126], [128], [135], [136], [162], [163], [164], [165], [166], [167], [168], [187], [188], [207], [209], [225], [269], [274], [294], [301], [302], [304], [305], [317], [325], [327], [330]
• Wenzel, King, [184], [219]
• Western Highlands, story-telling in, [5]
• Weyland Smith, [318]
• Wilde, Lady, [102], [128]
• Wild Edric. See [Edric]
• Wild Hunt, the, [233], [234], [236]
• William of Newbury, [146]
• Witchcraft, [29]
• Witches, [99], [143], [173], [336], [348]
• Woden, [212], [233], [247], [339]
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• Yatsh, or demon, wedding, [49]
• York, custom at, [90]
• Yorkshire, [189], [211]
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• Zoroaster, [96]

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