[I use the word “incident” as equivalent to the German sagzug, i.e., as connoting not only the separate parts of an action, but also its pictorial features.—A.N.]
- Ball, guiding, of silver, [132].
- Belore of the Evil Eye, [144].
- Besom riding, [85].
- Blast of wind from giant’s nostrils, [146].
- Blind wise man, [129].
- Blood drops incident, [19].
- Boat out of thimble, [137].
- Bones gathered up and revivified, [152].
- Bran, colour and swiftness of, [15].
- death of, [17].
- Bran’s daughter, [17];
- catches wild geese, [17-19];
- killed, [19].
- Broth-swallowing match, [11].
- Brother, of welcoming hags, [132].
- helps hero across stream, [133];
- restored to youth by hero, [135].
- Cap of darkness, [29].
- Cat, white, [130]. (= old hag?)
- Coach, enchanted, with two fawns, [139].
- Cross-roads, separation at, [129].
- Curse of the 24 men, [154].
- Damsel, encouraging, in red silk, [131].
- gives hero thimble as boat, [137].
- Daughter prevents father re-marrying after first wife’s death, by cutting grass on mother’s grave, [167].
- Dead man haunting house, [158].
- Destruction of king’s court by night, [3].
- Doctoring instrument, [148].
- Dog, black, catches bullets in mouth, [162];
- strikes exorcising priest dumb, [163];
- father of hags, [163].
- Dog, big black, son of weasel hag, [79].
- Dumbness caused by fairy blow, [116].
- Eagle guarding stream, [133].
- slain by hero, [134].
- Elder brothers fail, [140].
- Enchanter helps mortal, [93].
- passes him off as dead, [95].
- Fairest maid, description of, [112].
- Fairies baffled by cross, [115].
- Fairies carry off princess, [107, et seq.]
- require a mortal’s help, [89], [107].
- meet annually on November night, [122].
- Fairies turn into flying beetles, [89].
- Fairy help to mortal withdrawn, [142].
- Fairy dwelling filled with smoke and lightning, [143];
- hill opens, [87].
- Fairy horses unspelled, [115].
- host, noise of, [105];
- takes horse, [106].
- king and queen, [87].
- hurling match, [87].
- Fairy spits fire, and frightens Pope, [110].
- Father, cruel, cuts hands and feet off daughter, [168].
- punished, and healed by daughter, [169].
- Fearless hero, [156, et seq.],
- sleeps with corpse, [158].
- Feather supporting house, [131].
- Finn’s mother a fawn, [17].
- Flea killed by valiant tailor, [2].
- Football players in haunted house, [158].
- Fox, hiding-place for, [5].
- Geasa run, [21].
- Ghost denouncing murderer, [159].
- Ghost laying by fortune distributing, [159].
- Giants, two, crushed by stone, [9, et seq.]
- Giant outwitted by lying reports, [29].
- Giant slits himself up, [11].
- Goblin, headless, in cellar, [81], [157].
- drinks and plays music with hero, [83];
- bagpipes for fairies, [85].
- Grateful dead, [21], [23], [153].
- beggar, [156];
- robin, [165].
- Guarding monsters, [134].
- Hags, enchanted, turn vultures, [163].
- condemned for father’s crime, [164].
- turned into swans at end of enchantment period, [166].
- Hag turned into weasel, [79].
- welcoming, sister to hero’s nurse, [131].
- Hair turns into ladder, [140].
- Hare magic, [162].
- Haunted house, [81].
- Healing well, [129].
- Helping servant, [148].
- saves ungrateful master, [157].
- Herb for blood-stopping, [149].
- Herb of healing, [165].
- Hero, grown rich, visits home, [161].
- joins fairy host, [106].
- Heroine and attendant maidens made pregnant in their sleep, [135].
- seeks father of children, [139].
- recovers magic gifts abandoned by hero, [139, et seq.]
- tests false claimants, [140].
- full up of serpents banished by first embraces, [45].
- under spells, [37].
- Horse, swift as lightning, [132].
- talking, [2].
- hiding-place for, [3].
- Husband, not to re-marry till grass be foot high on dead wife’s grave, [167].
- Incurable sore foot, [129].
- Inexhaustible milk-can (fairy gift), [142].
- water and bread, [134].
- purse, [91].
- Kiss, first, from heroine, claimed by helping servant, [45].
- Lion, ploughing, [7];
- guarding, [134].
- Magic gifts abandoned by hero, [139].
- Mary’s shamrock (? four-leaved), [142].
- Murderer revealed by ghost, [160].
- Mutilated (hands and feet) heroine married, [168];
- restored after birth of triplets, [168].
- Night entertainment run, [29].
- Nonsense ending, [15], [128].
- November night for fairy gatherings, [122].
- One-eyed supernatural being, [144].
- Pin of slumber, [39], [43].
- Piper in haunted house, [158].
- Poison, King of, [39].
- Pole of combat, [27, et seq.]
- of combat run, [27].
- Pope compelled to reinstate priest, [110].
- Priest refuses to exorcise, [143];
- exorcises bewitched hags, [163].
- Princess, ill to death, cured by taking head off her, [149].
- promised to task performer, [2].
- released from fairies, [115].
- Purse that empties not, [91].
- Purses bestowed by supernatural being, [91], [144].
- Quest for healing water, [129].
- Recognition of hero by heroine, [141].
- Robin grateful, brings herb of healing, [165].
- Safety token (stone), [129].
- Servant’s wage, [23].
- Silence bespelling removed, [168].
- Skilful companions, gunner, listener, runner, blower, stone-breaker, [23-27].
- Sleep, magic, [147];
- of enchanted queen over in seven years, [134].
- Slumber pin in horse’s head, [43].
- Smelling giant, [27].
- Speech restored by herb, [125].
- Spikes crowned with skulls, [39].
- Step-mother (hag) accuses step-daughter, [168].
- Stone-breaker crushes sharp stones, [45].
- Swift runner and hag race, [43].
- Swiftness, slippers, [33].
- Sword that leaves leavings of no blow behind it, [37].
- Sword of light, [135].
- Tailor, valiant, [2].
- Taboo on telling about fairy gifts, [142].
- broken and punished by loss, [143].
- Threefold entertaining by hags, [130].
- Three sons start for healing water, [129].
- Travellers’ seat in wood, [131].
- Unwashed feet of hero, [104].
- Wages, half of what is earned, [148].
- Wages of help servant refused, [150].
- Weasel brings money, [73];
- attacks despoiler, [75];
- kills cow, [77];
- turns into hag, [77].
- Well of healing balm, [41].
- of healing water, [129].
- Workmen’s wages, [7].
- Witch released by Masses, [79].
- Witch’s hut to be burnt after death, [79].
- Youngest son succeeds, [138];
- envied by elder brothers, [138, et seq.];
- made a scullion, [139].
- Youth, restoration to, [135].