A
Aaron, The rod of, 204
Abbott, G. F., 21
Abel, The burial of, 178
Abner and David, 358
Abraham, 319
Achish and David, 358
Adam, Language of, 13;
and Eve, 79;
and the burial of Abel, 178;
and Eve and the devil, 210;
and the cat and dog, 361
Æsop, 29;
“Life” of, 30;
transmission of Æsopian fables, 31
Afanasiev’s Russian Tales, 22, 195, 293, 326, 331
Ahikar, The story of, 29–31;
Rumanian version of, 355
Alans, 15
Albigenses, The, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 123
Alexander the Great, 57, 125;
and the knight (cricket), 207;
and the two brothers, 284;
destroys the dog-men, 285;
his conquests, 285;
Romance of, 286;
“Letter to Aristotle,” 286
Allegorical use of animal tales, 31
“Alphabet of Ben Sira, or Pseudo Sirach,” 209, 213, 357
Amazons, 285
Amber, Fly in, simile for transmission of folk-tales, 37
Ambrose, St., of Milan, and the Ambrosian chant, 48
Anadan, 355
Andersen, Hans C., 35
Angelic sparks, i.e. glow-worms.
See Glow-worms.
Angels, The fall of the, 38, 39;
among men, 73;
become stars, 74;
the angel in love, 74, 78;
St. Peter casts out the little devil, 75;
angels who refused to help St. Elias (bull-flies), 103
Angromainya, 27
Animals, Man and, relations between, 2;
as disguised human beings, 2, 23;
animals humanised, 2, 28;
substitution of local animals in stories, 6, 12;
not humanised in Rumanian fables, 28;
incantations against animal illnesses, 348
Animism, 2
Anne, St., and the magician, 203
Ant, The, Origin of, and why it is cut in the middle, 283;
the grandchild of God, 283;
protected by the Virgin, 283;
the red ant the Virgin’s tears, 283;
remedy against toothache, 283
Ants, The, and the cricket, 207
Ape, The, and the dog, 361.
See Monkey
Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, etc., 25
Apollo, 244
Apostles, The, 39;
on earth, 76;
and St. Peter, 130
Apples, Worms in, 122
Arabians feed Elijah, 280
Arabic literature, Animal tales in, 31;
the raven in, 279
Arianism and Manichaeism, 41;
and the Goths, 41–43;
and the Bible, etc., in the vernacular, 44;
and the Catholic Church, 45;
Gothic, 48;
and the Greek Church, 51
Arius and religious minstrelsy, 47
Arkir, Stories from, 355
Armenian, The, and the hoopoe, 288
Armenians, 15
Arnica, 283
Asiatic folk-lore, 2
Ass, The, lion frightened by, 331;
length and manner of life, 336;
why he mixes his water, 360
Autos-da-fé, 45
Avesta, The, 26;
the bull in the, 96
Avianus, 32
