n 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, 17;
Eskimo, 12, 19

Ascension Day, 90

Aubrey, John, 148, 244

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

Cabalists, the, a mediaeval 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

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 Phoenician goddess, 324

Devil,