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Percy, Harry, gives Douglas and his host a draught of wine over
Newcastle walls after engaging to meet Douglas at Otterburn,
III, 296;
asked by his father to put off the battle in order that certain
gentlemen may see it, will not, 297;
his generous lament for the death of Douglas, 309, 312.

Percy’s, Thomas, treatment of his texts, his “old copies,” II, 49;
III, 461 f.

Peregrinus Compostellanus, Jesuitenkomödie, I, 238 n.

Der Peri, Siberian-Turkish tale, V, 46.

Perjuries, close grazing on, II, 35, and n., 108, 110, 158-65, 171;
IV, 465, 468; V, 48, 51 f., 56.

Peter Diemringer of Staufenberg, I, 372.

Peter the Great, Tsar, III, 382 f.

Petronelle and Alphonso, tale of Gower, I, 10.

Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.

Die Pfeiferin, Esthonian tale, I, 124 n.

Pheron, son of Sesostris, story of, in Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.

Philemon and Baucis, I, 99.

Philiphaugh, Battle of, ballad, IV, 77 ff.

Pickelheringsspiel, V, 97.

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.

Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, V, 297 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;
in comic, V, 88-95, 303 f.

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;
dragging in a barrel stuck with nails, V, 48;
boiling in a caldron, boiling in oil or molten lead, throwing into
boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; V, 230, 281;
half-hanging, quartering, seething in boiling lead, cutting joints
asunder, and burning, V, 53;
half-hanging and seething in boiling lead, 56.

Punker shoots a coin from his son’s head, III, 18.

Pushkin, verses from The Three Ravens pass for his, I, 253.

Queen asks the lives of Adam Bell, etc., of the king, III, 28;
her extravagant partiality for Cloudesly and his family, 30.

Queen of Fairy’s beauty destroyed (temporarily) by intercourse with
Thomas, I, 327.

Queen of Sheba’s hard questions, I, 404 n.

Queen releases the Laird of Logie from prison by a trick, III, 452
ff.; IV, 516; V, 300.

Queen’s Maries, III, 381, 382 n., 385 f., 388, 391-9; IV, 508-12; V,
246, 298 f.

Queens of England; of Scotland.
See under Kings.

Questions and tasks offset by other questions and requisitions, I, 6
ff., etc.
See Tasks.

Quintalin, in the saga of Samson the Fair, I, 50, 54, 259.

Rabssaldchal, King, and his minister’s daughter-in-law, I, 12.

Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme
Süd-Siberiens, I, 10, 418, 486; II, 506 b; V, 46.

Rævens Arvegods, III, 499.

Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.

The Raid of the Reid Swyre, III, 317.

The Rainbow, name of a ship, V, 143.

Rájá Rasálu, story of, V, 33 f.

Rakshas, Indian, gives riddles, I, 14.

Ramiro, King of Leon, V, 4-6; ballad of, 6.

Ransom of woman refused by father, mother, etc., paid by husband, II,
346 f.; III, 516 a; IV, 481 a; V, 231 a;
paid by lover, II, 347-54; III, 516 b; IV, 481; V, 231-3;
parts reversed, man ransomed by true-love, II, 349 f., 514 a; III,
516 f.; IV, 481 f.; V, 233 f., 296;
variations on this theme, III, 516 f.; IV, 481 a;
woman will dress in gay colors upon death of blood-relations, in
black for husband, II, 347; V, 231;
maid imprecates curses on her relations, II, 348 b; IV, 481; V, 231
f.;
invokes blessings on lover, V, 231 f.;
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.

Das Räthsel, tale of the Grimms, I, 417.

Räthselfragen, I, 2 n.

Räthsellieder, I, 1, 2.

Rauf Coilyear, rhymed tale, V, 69 n., 70 f., 74.

Ravnlil, false accuser of Gunild, II, 35.

Il re alla caccia, play of Goldoni, V, 75.

Li Reali di Francia, II, 68 n.; V, 284 a.

The Red Bull of Norroway, Scottish tale, I, 307 n., 461 n.

The Red Etin, Scottish tale, The Red Etin puts trying questions, I,
484 b; V, 201.

Red Rowan, III, 471, 474.

Der Reiger, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.

De la reine qui tua son séneschal, conte, I, 489.

Reinfrid von Braunschweig, I, 196, 459.

Der Reiter in Seiden, German tale, I, 47.

Rejuvenation of old woman by burning to bones and throwing bones into
tub of milk, I, 507 b.

Remi, Philippe de, Sire de Beaumanor, his romance of Jehan et Blonde
(Blonde of Oxford), I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.

Remorse, immediate, after a cruel deed, II, 242, 245 f., 252, 266,
271; V, 35, 37.

Renard le Contrefait, Old French romance, I, 263.

Renold, miller’s son, Reynolde, one of Robin Hood’s men, III, 54, 70.

Repetition in dialogue, I, 157; V, 286 b.

Rescue of Johnny More by gigantic uncles, IV, 398 f.

Reserve in duels of a peculiarly formidable sword, II, 35.

Reven og Bjönnen, Reven og Nils fiskar, I, 144 b.

Reviling, reproaching, scolding spirits and elves, I, 21, 485 a; II,
496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b.

Revolving palace, I, 277.

Rhodes, house of the, III, 428, 433;
house of Rothes, V, 247 f.

Riccio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.

Richard (Cœur de Lion), III, 220, 223, 227, 230;
the romance, I, 320 n.; II, 511 b, 513 a; III, 55.

Richarda, or Richardis, wife of the Emperor Charles III, her ordeal,
II, 38 f.

Richars li Biaus, romance, III, 508 a.

Rid Square, Song of the, V, 307 b.

Riddle-craft practised by preternatural beings:
the Devil, I, 4 f. (=C=, =D=), 14; V, 283;
Odin, Thor, Vafþrúðnir, Alvíss, berggeist, dragon, rusalka, vila,
rakshas, I, 13 f.;
baba-yaga, pšezpolnica, mittagsfrau, serpolnica, Red Etin, I, 484;
air-sprite, ogre, II, 495.

Riddles (songs, ballads and tales): I, 1-5, 9-11, 13 f., 404-23,
426-30, 484; II, 495, 506 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439, 459 f.; V,
205, 216 f., 283 f., 291.

Riddles:
beautiful girl not to be had by any man who cannot puzzle her
father with a riddle, Gaelic tale, I, 417 b;
man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother’s
riddles, Lithuanian tale, I, 418 f.;
riddles at marriages of Russian peasants, I, 418.
Penalty for not guessing is life, I, 10, 14, 404-6; 409, 411, 413,
447; II, 495 b, 506 b; III, 496 a; IV, 439 a; V, 205 a, 291;
forfeit of kingdom, possessions, place, paying tribute, etc., I,
10-13, 404, 406-8, 410; IV, 459 b;
to be taken off by the Devil, I, 5, 205;
by rusalka, I, 14;
rewards to guessers, I, 407 b, 409 f., 416 n.; II, 495 a;
princess requires lovers to give her riddles, those who cannot
pose her to lose their heads, I, 417;
riddles to be guessed as condition of marriage, German, I, 1 f.,
484 a;
Slavic, I, 2 f., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a;
Gaelic, I, 3;
riddles guessed win a husband, I, 1-5, 10, 13, 484 a; II, 495 a;
IV, 439 a;
win a wife, I, 416 f., 420-23, 426-30; IV, 439 a; V, 216 f.

Riddles in the Mahā-bhārata and Kathā-sarit-sāgara, II, 495.

Riddles (Chaldean), given by wise man to the gods, IV, 439.

The Ridere (Knight) of Riddles, West Highland Tale, I, 417.

Riding into hall, knights and others, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a.

Right-hitting Brand, III, 43 b, n.; V, 297 a.

Rimild, Rimnild==Rymenhild, Horn’s love, I, 190 f.

Ring halved at parting by husband and wife (lovers), I, 194-8, 457
n., 470, 502 b, 503 a; V, 5;
such half-rings often dug up, I, 194 n.;
ring in betrothal, I, 199 a, n.; V, 287 b;
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.
For The Downfall, etc., see III, 179; V, 100.

Robin and Marion, in French literature, III, 46.

Robin Hood:
his alleged noble extraction, III, 46, and n.;
as he appears in ballads, III, 42 f.;
historical theories about, 43;
his comrades, 43.
the ballads, dates and sorts, 42.
his band==7 score, III, 65 (185), 67, 75, 78;
100 bowmen, III, 41 n.;
300 yeomen, III, 180;
150 + 60 mentioned, III, 181;
kept 300 bowmen before his outlawry, then 100, III, 228.
beguiled and bled to death by the prioress of Kirkley, III, 78,
103, 105 f., or by a monk, friar, 226, 231.
Bishop of Ely routed by, III, 230.
his bower, III, 518 f.
builds an almshouse, III, 213;
eight almshouses, 230.
captures a bishop and takes a large sum from him, III, 192, 195;
makes him sing a mass, 192, 196, 199, 202, 204;
dance in his boots, 195.
his comrades, III, 43, and n; V, 297 a.
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.
in the fifteenth century, III, 41; V, 240 a.
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.

Robin Hood and Little John, a comedy, III, 134.

Robin Hood’s bower, III, 518 f.

Robin Lyth, mistaken title of Ritson’s, III, 13.

Robin’s Tesment, I, 144 b;
Robin’s Last Will, The, V, 286 b.

Robyn Hode in Barnysdale stode, mock song in The Four Elements, III,
42 n.

Rögutaja’s wife, Esthonian saga, I, 124 n.

Der Rohrstengel, tale, I, 125.

Le Roi et le Fermier, play of Sédaine, V, 75.

Le Roi et le Meunier, translation of a play of Dodsley’s, V, 75.

Le Roi Hugon, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, I, 283.

Roig, the poet, I, 238.

Roister Doister, play by Nicholas Udall, III, 294.

Roland, of the twelve peers, I, 277.

Röndólfr, IV, 502 b.

Rookhope, foray into, III, 439 ff.

Rosamonde and Élie de Saint-Gille, story of, I, 458 n.

La Rose de Pimperlé, tale, IV, 447 b.

Rose, Sir James the, ballad, IV, 155 ff.

Les roseaux qui chantent, tales, III, 499 a; IV, 447 b; V, 208 b.

Rosemunda, Lombard queen of 6th century, relation of her story to
ballad of Donna Lombarda, etc., V, 286 b, 295 a.

Rosette, ugly lady in Gautier’s Conte dn Graal, V, 289 b.

Roswall and Lillian, A pleasant History of, V, 43-5;
tales resembling, 45-57, 280 f.

Rothes, house of, V, 247 f.;
house of the Rhodes, III, 433.

Rowan-tree: spot where rowan-tree chest stands not affected by
witchcraft, I, 83 f.

Rune preservative of chastity, II, 506 a;
sleep induced by runes (charm), I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
will controlled by runes, I, 362.

Rusalka, Russian, gives riddles, I, 14; II, 495.

Rymenhild, daughter of King Ailmar of Westerness, beloved of Horn, I,
188-90.

Sacchetti, I, 406.

Sachs, Hans. See Hans Sachs.

Sad-der, Persian, II, 235.

Sadko, story of, in Russian popular epics, II, 15, 510 a; V, 220 a.

Sagas: Egils ok Ásmundar saga, IV, 443.
Flóamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.
Friðþjófs saga, II, 376.
Gríms saga loðinkinna, I, 292 f.
Gull-þóris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.
Göngu-Hrólfs saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.
Hálfs saga, I, 95; II, 15.
Heiðreks saga, V, 8.
Hemings þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.
Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 307, 315, 489 b.
Hrólfs saga kraka, I, 290 n., 297, 393, 489.
Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Karlamagnus saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Mágus saga, I, 283 n.
Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.
Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Ólafs saga helga, II, 127.
Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.
Samsons saga fagra, I, 50, 259.
Sturlaugs saga starfsama, II, 35 n.
Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.
Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, 243 b.
Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, I, 98, 487.
Vemundar saga ok Vígaskútu, IV, 502 a.
Vilkina saga, III, 16.
Völsunga saga, I, 392; II, 127.
Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n; IV, 479 b.

Sage (or parsley) hides the Virgin from Herod, II, 8 n.

La Sage-femme et la Fée, tale, V, 215.

Saint Andrew, his legend, I, 14, and n., 484 b; II, 495 b, 507 a.

Saint Anne, I, 237; II, 379.

Saint Bartholomew, I, 14, and n.

Saint George, I, 487 n.; II, 509 a;
called Our Lady’s knight, III, 294, 297, 520 a; IV, 499; V, 244 b,
297 b.

Saint George play in Cheshire, V, 291.

Saint James, Pilgrims of, legend, I, 236-9;
miracles of, attributed to San Domingo, 238.

Saint Johannes Eleemosynarius, II, 235.

Saint Mary’s knot, III, 462 n., 465.

Saint Olof, Swedish legend of, I, 95.

Saint Oswald, IV, 463 b.

Saint Serf, I, 14 n.

Saint Stephen and Herod, I, 233 ff.

Saint Stephen, patron of horses, a stable-groom in Swedish ballads,
I, 235;
his feast a great Horse Day, I, 235 n.;
this a continuation of heathenism, 236.

Saint Stephen of Hungary and Saint Gunther, I, 239.

Saint Tryphine, Breton mystery, V, 292 a.

Saint Ulrich, Slovenian ballad, I, 14, and n.

Saint Vicelin, II, 235.

Saint William of Norwich, III, 241 a; V, 297 b.

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.

Schimong, Chinese emperor, V, 226 a.

Eine schöne und liebliche History vom edlen und theuren Ritter
Galmien, II, 42.

Die Schönste, Greek tale, I, 313.

Schupp, Balthasar, I, 408.

Scogin, The Jests of, I, 128 n.; IV, 497 a.

Scolding, reproaching, reviling of sprites and elves, I, 21, 485 a;
II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;
scolding or reviling will not be endured by the better sort of
these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.

Scolding woman too much for the devil, V, 107 f., 305 a.

La Scomessa, Italian tale, V, 97.

Scott.
See under Family Names.

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.

Seneca, III, 306.

Sénecé, Filer le parfait amour, I, 269.

Sercambi, Novelle di, V, 97.

Sermones Parati, V, 33.

Serpolnica, I, 484 b.

Service, fruitless, of seven years, for king’s daughter, I, 204-6,
255; V, 212 b.

Serving man aspiring to match with an earl’s daughter is strongly
backed by his noble master, II, 443-5, 448-50, 453.

Seton, Bonny John, ballad, IV, 51 ff.

The Seven Figures (or Beauties), Persian poem, I, 417.

Seven Sages, Seven Wise Masters, I, 392; II, 511 b.

Seyf El-Mulook, story of (Lane’s Thousand and One Nights), II, 511 b.

Seymour, Jane. See Jane, Queen.

Shakspere,
Cymbeline, V, 23 n.;
Hamlet, V, 201 n.;
Henry the Fourth, I, III, 44 n.; II, III, 129; IV, 36;
Henry the Sixth, III, II, 181;
King Lear, II, 240; V, 201;
Merry Wives, I, 322 n.; III, 129;
Much Ado, V, 201 n.;
Pericles, I, 416;
Richard the Third, II, 143;
Taming of the Shrew, V, 201;
Twelfth Night, IV, 507 a; V, 287 b.

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;
shirt demanded by Elfin Knight, I, 7; V, 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.)

Shovell, Sir Cloudesley (“Shawfield”), V, 147.

Shrift saves a ship endangered by a storm, II, 15;
sinner thrown overboard to save a ship taken to heaven by the
Virgin for the shrift he has made, II, 16.

Shukasaptati, Seventy Tales of a Parrot, I, 11 n., 12 n., 13, 268 n.,
270, and n.; V, 289 a.

Sibilla, wife of Charles the Great, suspected of unfaithfulness,
various forms of the story, II, 40 f.

Siddhi-Kür, I, 402.

Side, Armstrongs of the, especially Jock o the Side, III, 475 ff.

Sidney’s admiration of the song of Percy and Douglas, III, 305.

Le sifflet enchanté, Le sifflet qui parle, tale, I, 493 b; II, 498
b; III, 499 a.

Sigrdrífumál, I, 392.

Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana, III, II, 127.

Simon, Simond, Peter, a noble gunner employed by Lord Howard against
Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-5, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.

Simon the Foundling, Servian hero, V, 295 a.

Sinadab, story of, V, 12.

Der singende Knochen, tale, I, 125.

Das singende springende Löweneckerchen, tale, I, 307 n.

Sinkarib, Histoire de, et de ses deux Visirs, Persian tale, I, 11 n.

Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, romance, II, 499, 506, 513; III, 520;
the French romance, II, 511.

Sir Broninge, knight, I, 210.

Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel, romance, I, 209.

Sir Eglamour of Artois, romance, I, 209; II, 511 a.

Sir Egrabell, I, 210.

Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight, romance, I, 257 n.

Sir Gowther, II, 303.

Sir Hugh, ballad of A. Cunningham, II, 260.

Sir Isumbras, romance, II, 513 a.

Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad, by Michael Bruce, IV, 156.
See Rose.

Sir Olaf (Oluf), and the elf, I, 374-8;
poisoned by the elf for inconstancy, 375;
is run through with a sword for refusing to consort with elves,
375;
is struck by elf to whom he has declined to plight himself (being
already betrothed) and dies in a day, 375 f.;
may choose between living with the elves and dying, 377.

Sir Orpheo, Orfeo, romance, I, 216, 340, 504 a; II, 128.

Sir Perceval, English romance, II, 51.
See Perceval.

Sir Ryalas, I, 212 f.

Sir Triamour, romance, II, 41; V, 176.

Sir Tristrem, romance, I, 67, 317, 487 a; II, 127.

Sisibe, wife of Sigmundr, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.

Sister comes every Saturday to comb the head of a brother who has
been transformed into a worm, I, 315;
the same, by sister changed to a mackerel, 316.

Sister hunted to death by rival in love, V, 158.

Sisters (sister) killed or maltreated by robbers who turn out to be
their brothers, I, 171-7;
Russian ballad, II, 499 a.

Skelton, John, Against the Scottes, Chorus de Dis, IV, 499 a;
Colyn Cloute, V, 100;
perhaps author of a Robin Hood pageant, III, 519 b.

Skikkju Rímur, or Mantle Rhymes, Icelandic, I, 259, 261 n., 264 n.

Skuin over de groenelands heide, III, 502.

Slangen og den lille Pige, Danish tale, I, 307.

Slaughter in large numbers of relations of lady-love by lover:
six or seven brothers and father and other kinsmen, I, 89;
father, eleven brothers, seven brothers-in-law, 91;
father and six brothers, 92;
six brothers, 94 n.;
father and seven brothers, 101 f.;
six or seven brothers, II, 170, and n. (eighteen thousand
assailants, I, 91;
fourteen of father’s best men, I, 100, 108).

Sleep, induced by charms, runes, I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
by runes written on sheets of a bed, 391;
by a letter inserted between sheet and coverlet, by an enchanted
feather, by runes written on cushions, 392;
by a soporific pillow, I, 393;
by sleep-thorns, -pins, I, 392 f.; III, 506; IV, 459;
by strewing broom-blossoms at a man’s head and feet (on his neck),
I, 394 f.;
by magic of some sort, V, 2;
by music, see Music.

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.

Sleeping under trees.
See Trees.

Sługobyl, Polish tale, V, 46 n.

Small-maids Land, I, 259.

The Smith and the Demon, Russian tale, I, 507.

Solfager, Suolfar, King David’s (Sir David’s) wife, Solfot, V, 7 f.,
280.

Solomon and his wife, tales of, V, 2-4, 279.

Solomon and Kitovras, V, 2.

Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f.

Solomon and his queen, Russian, Servian, and German tale, V, 2 f.

Solomon and Saturn. See Salomon and Saturn.

Solomon’s riddles, I, 404.

Sölvi, IV, 502 a.

Son of a king liberates a prisoner (prisoners) of his father; the
service is gratefully returned in a subsequent emergency, V,
43-57.

Song (Liedlein) von dreierlei Stimmen sung by one person, I, 34; V,
285 a.

Song of the false knight (Halewijn==elf-knight) excites longing, I,
25 ff., 485; V, 285.

Song in ballad repeated, I, 478; V, 16, 51 f., 214 f., 218 f.

Songs of the Ghilanis, Persian, II, 506 b.

Soporific effect of music, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21;
V, 220 b.

Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.

Sörli, IV, 502 a.

Souling, song so called, V, 291 a.

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.

Stephening, I, 234 n.; V, 291.

Stepmother (witch) transforms maid (generally) to hideous shape,
tree, serpent, fish, wolf, I, 178, 290-3, 297, 307, 309 f., 312
f.; II, 503-5; V, 214;
two maids, sisters, V, 214 f.;
maid and brother, I, 290 n., 296, 315 f., 336 f.;
two maids and brother, I, 306;
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;
the same of a princess and her maid, 47.

Τὸ Στοίχημα, Romaic ballad, V, 21.

The Story of Conall Gulban, West Highland tale, III, 507.

Straparola, I, 401; II, 143; V, 46, 96.

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.

Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.

Svend Bondes Spørgsmaal, V, 205.

The Swepstacke, The Sweepstakes, name of a ship, V, 133.

Swift, Tale of a Tub, II, 441.

Sword laid in bed between man and woman, II, 127, and n., 130, 135,
511; III, 509 a; V, 292 b;
reduced sportively to straw, II, 127 n.; III, 509 a; V, 292 b.

Sword, whetted on straw, grass, a stone, the ground, wiped or dried
on sleeve, grass, before using, II, 131, 139, 159, 161 f., 166,
169, 185, 243 f., 249, 256, 261, 266, 273, 305 f., 380, 390,
393, 396, 483, 492; IV, 491; V, 37, 226 f., 235.

Sword and ring laid before maid ‘to stick him wi the brand or wed him
wi the ring,’ II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.

Swords, Adelring, Sudevind, and others of superexcellent quality, II,
34, 35, and n., 50.

Swords, two in a scabbard, II, 133, 135, 245, 251, 256, 258; IV, 477.

Sworn brethren, IV, 146 f.

Syntipas, V, 13 f.

Table, drawing a, explained, V, 304 a.

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.

Tales cited without title:--
Albanian, V, 47.
Armenian (==King John and Bishop), IV, 459 b;
tale or ballad, I, 490 a.
Breton, III, 504 a, 506 b, 507 a.
Esthonian, I, 308.
Gypsy (Transylvanian, etc.), IV, 459 b; V, 60.
Lithuanian, II, 499 b, 511 a.
Magyar, IV, 459 b; V, 60, 216 a.
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;
in Babylonian Talmud, V, 284;
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.

Thyme song, V, 258.

Tibullus, II, 236 n.

Time, illusion as to duration of, I, 321, and n., 328; V, 290 a.

Tiran le Blanc, romance, I, 308.

Titurel, Der jüngere, I, 98, 267.

Der todte Schuldner, tale, III, 501.

Das Todtebeindli, tale, I, 125.

Toilets, women’s, in ballads, I, 31, 54, and n.; II, 183-6, 188-91;
IV, 312 f., 316 f.; V, 301 b.

Tokens sent a lady to legitimate a messenger:
mantle and ring, II, 265;
glove and ring, 266;
gloves, ring, mantle, 267;
mantle, sark of silk (sleeve sewed by her), 268 f.;
mantle, smock (sleeve sewed by her), 270;
mantle, silken sark (sleeve sewed by her), 272;
sark, shirt, shift of silk, (with sewing by her), 379, 384 f., 389,
391, 395; IV, 488 f.;
shirt from lady to man, II, 394; IV, 491.
As to shirts as tokens, see V, 284.

Tokens to identify man claiming to be husband or lover, or woman
claiming to be true-love, II, 215 f., 218-20, 222-5; III, 510
f.; IV, 473; V, 225;
demanded by mother of woman professing to be her daughter, V, 65 n.

Tokens sent keeper of a prisoner as warrants of king’s authority,
king’s comb, queen’s knife, III, 452 (IV, 515);
king’s glove, with his hand-writing, III, 455; V, 300.

Toko’s apple-shot, III, 16.

Tollet’s painted window, III, 45.

Tom Hickathrift, V, 226.

To-names among the border clansmen, III, 461 n.

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;
of ugly old man to beautiful youth, V, 213.

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;
other similar cases, V, 289 b;
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.

Des Tresces, fabliau, V, 22 n.

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.