Volume 5 / Part 3 — INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE (continued 3)
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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.
Troth asked back by lover of true-love before he is put to death, II, 178;
given back to dying man by maid, V, 168;
asked back by dead lover, II, 227, 229-33.
(The process, straking on a wand, II, 230;
touching three times on the breast with a silver key, 232;
smoothing her hand on his heart, 233;
striking on the heart with a white wand, V, 168.)
Troth asked back by dead father of son, II, 512 b.
True Thomas, I, 323 f., 326, 508; IV, 455-7.
Truls och hans barn, Swedish tales (==No 14), I, 501 b.
Tsar and deserter, Russian tale, V, 74 f.
Turandot, I, 417, and n., German schwank, 418; V, 291 a.
Des Turcken Vassnachtspiel, I, 437.
The Turke and Gowin, I, 289 n.; II, 505; III, 55.
Turpin, Archbishop, I, 277.
Tutbury, bull-running at, III, 214, 217.
Tuti-nameh, Tútí Náma, I, 268; V, 100 f.
The Two Fair Sisters, ballad of Cunningham’s, I, 119 n.
Two mares, story of the, I, 11 n., 12; V, 284.
Tweed, water of, I, 129, 131, 134-6; III, 308, 311; IV, 103.
Twins an indication of incontinence in the mother, II, 67, and n., 511 a.
Tyne, water of, II, 464, 314; III, 299, 477, 480-3.
Udivitel’nyj Mužiček, The wonderful Peasant, Russian tale, V, 281.
Unco knicht==Devil, I, 5; cf. V, 283.
Unearthly beings, peril of intercourse with them, I, 322-5, 327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.
Unequal marriages, II, 441-55; IV, 172 f., 522; V, 255; IV, 292-9, V, 270; IV, 403-8; V, 277 f.
Unnatural connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, 210.
Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404.
Valerius Maximus, III, 503.
Van den verwenden Keyser, Jan van Hollant, tale, I, 408 n.
The Varietie, comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, II, 243; III, 176.
Das Vasnachtspil mit der Kron, a farce, I, 266.
Vega, Luis de la, I, 238, 239 n.
Vemundar saga ok Vígaskútu, IV, 502 a.
Der verkêrte Wirt, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
Die verwünschte Prinzessin, German tale, I, 13.
Vesle Aase Gaasepige, Norwegian tale, I, 66, 268.
Il Viaggio di Carlo Magno in Ispagna, I, 275 n.
Vidushaka, story of, I, 200.
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.
Der Vogelritter, tale, V, 39 n.
Volch. See Vol’ga.
Le Voleur des Crêpes, French-Breton tale, III, 497 a.
Vol’ga, Volch, in Russian bylinas, V, 295 a.
Völsunga saga, I, 392; II, 127.
Völuspá, I, 21.
Vom schlauen Mädchen, Lithuanian tale, I, 10.
Vom singenden Dudelsack, Sicilian tale, I, 125.
Vom weissen und vom rothen Kaiser, Wallachian tale, I, 11 n.
Vom weissen Wolf, Lithuanian tale, I, 307 n.
Vom wilden Manne, Bohemian tale, V, 46.
Von dem Brembergers End und Tod, German meisterleid, V, 32.
Von dem König von Spanien und seiner Frau, German story, I, 268.
Von dem Mädchen das an Weisheit den Kaiser übertraf, Servian tale, I, 9.
Von einem Edelman welcher einem Abt drey Fragen aufgegeben, 1594, comedy, I, 408.
Von zwein Kaufmannen, rhymed tale by Konrad von Würzburg, V, 23.
Vows of the Heron, V, 292 b.
Wade, Weland, and Mimir Smith, I, 401 n.
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.
Whale swallows the Magdalen, V, 288 a.
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.
The Wife lapped in Morrel’s skin, V, 105.
Wife wrapped a sheep’s skin, etc., and beaten, V, 104 ff., 304 f.
Wigalois, romance, I, 257 n., 269 n.; III, 515 b.
Wigamur, romance, I, 269.
Wikel==Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 192.
Wilkina saga, III, 16.
Will, her, (sovereignty) is what a woman most desires, I, 290-2, 295, 299; V, 289 b.
William and Margaret, an Old Ballad, David Mallet, II, 200; V, 294 a.
William of Malmesbury, II, 37; V, 298 a.
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.
Witch of Berkeley, V, 298 a.
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.
Wulric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, III, 179.
Wuthering Heights, V, 203.
The Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin, rhymed tale, V, 104.
Wyssenhere, Michel, poem on the Duke of Brunswick, I 195.
Yâjnavalkya’s Law-book, II, 235.
Yarrow, I, 246; IV, 160 ff., 178 ff.
Ympë tree, I, 178, 216, 340; II, 505 b; V, 290.
See Apple-tree; Trees, special.
Yorkshire dialect in an American ballad, V, 296 a.
Young Beichan: relations of his story to those of Henry and Reinfrit of Brunswick, the good Gerhard, Messer Torello, etc., I, 459.
Young Beichan and Hind Horn, parts of the principal actors in one inverted in the other, I, 455.
Young Thomlin, an air, I, 336.
Ywaine and Gawin, romance, I, 306.
Zeyn Alasnam, Arabian tale of, I, 269.