Chapter III: Witches (21)

Trolls, assume shape of magpies, in Sweden, 364

Truth and falsehood, travels of, story title, 36-39

Trynetyrk, giant beings, Norwegian, 340

Tumuli, called giants graves, x.

Turkish sultan in folk-tales, xx.

Twelve brothers marry twelve sisters, 159, 263, 267

Twins, golden-haired, born to heroine, 184

Twilight, myth of, in folk-tales, 327

Uliva (St.) legend of, quoted, 339

Underground people, in folk-tales, 408

Useless article found on road, source of wealth to finder, 354

Valuable, three things, story title, 155-157

Vargaluska (dancing), concealed name of dwarf, 48

Vasfogu, Bába, story character, 5

Vikings, probable legend of, quoted, 352

Vine-growing as task for hero, 18

Vomiting of persons eaten, incident in folk-tales, 399

Walachian folk-tales, quoted, 338, 395, 396

Watching, youngest son successful in, 390

Water, foal washed in to gain strength, 256

---- immersion, cure of maiming by, story incident, 53

---- possessing power of transforming human being into animal, 220

----, reflection of heroine's face in, 135

----, want of, causes death of princesses who were cut from oranges, 133

----, youth-giving, from fairies' well, 289, 293, 295

---- of life, allegory of, 93, 250-262

Water-spring, blocking up by devils, story incident, 37

----, magic origin of, 72

Wayland Smith, legend quoted, 351

Weaving in folk-tales, 330

----, soldiers produced by, 68

Wedding customs, Magyar, 365

---- festivities, 104-105

---- party, greeting to, 80

Weeding operations in story incident, 81

Well, frog residing in, 224

----, holy, flowers from, used at marriages, Palócz, 412

----, mud from, cures blindness, 152

---- worship, xxxii.

Wells, marvellous powers of water, 373

Wend, folk-tales quoted, 359

Were-wolves, 344

Whale, heroine devoured by, 222

Wheat, dirty, heroine set task of cleaning, 208, 209, 211

Whip, magical, 16, 27, 107

Whistle, magic, 392

---- given by grateful animals for summons, 153

---- commanding obedience from insects, fish, or mice, 252, 253

Whistle and whip, a method of summons, 372

Widower and his daughter, story of, 207-216

Wife, lord's power over vassals, alluded to, 18

Wife of hero desired by king, 314

Wife-beating of, story incident, 23

Wife's kindred, interposition of, 24

Wine taken by hero to renew strength, 201, 248

---- drank by foal for food, 265

Wings, magic, for travelling, 142

Winifred, St., well of, in Flintshire, 373

Wishes, the, story of, 217-219

Witches, assist youngest son, hero, 61

---- burning of, 181

---- changes into pigeon, story incident, 160

----, children of, born with teeth, 378

---- drugs hero, 253, 254, 255

----, fear of, for animals, 57, 115

----, giants supposed to be, xxiv.

---- guardian of castle in Hades, 68

---- in Magyar folk-lore, xli.-xliv.

---- kills her own children by ruse, 159, 268

----, magical powers of, xlii.

----, method of seeing, xli.

----, mother of giants, 57

---- with iron nose, 241, 243

---- year consists of three days, 252

Witch's daughter personates heroine, 221

---- daughters in shape of horses, 252

---- maid helps hero, 204

Witchcraft defeated by the drawing of blood, 343

Wives, dragon's, destroyed by hero, 203

Wodin, dragon sacred to, 325

Wolf, assistance of, to hero, 153

Wolf, in Finnish grateful animal story, 305

Wolves, country inhabited by, 188, 195

Woman's curiosity, story title, 301-302, 313

Woman, old, made young by hero, 260

Women, aged, direct hero in quest, 258

Wood-grouse in Karelian grateful animal story, 305

Woodpecker in folk-tales, 362, 372

----, influence of, on hero's actions, 99, 108-109

Worcestershire folk-lore, 378

Words, story turning on similarity of, 84

World, underground, visited by hero, 247

World's beautiful woman, story of, 163

Wrestling of hero with strong men, 245

Yarborough Camp, Lincolnshire, legend concerning, 382

Year of service given by hero, 157

---- of three days duration, 98

Yellow Hammer, King, story character, 2

Yorkshire finger-lore, 330, 331

---- folk-lore, 349, 398

---- superstitions, 402

Youngest, success of, 389-391

Youngest brother, story hero, 40, 55, 60, 92, 97, 116, 153, 157, 203

---- daughter, story heroine, 27, 43, 49, 159

---- prince successful in quest, 288

---- prince and youngest princess, story title, 137-141

---- sister heroine of tale, 207, 224-226

---- son successful, 150, 196, 250

Youth, allegory of, 93

---- giving plants, 109

---- giving water, 288, 372-373

----, power to restore, possessed by pelican, 251, 258, 262

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Some spelling was corrected for consistency.