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Babrius, 32

Balkans, Races of the, 15;
animal tales and the, 36, 38;
the Goths in the, 42;
the Slavs, 43;
the Bulgars, 44;
heretical sects in the, 52

Barlaam legend, 6, 16, 25

Basil, The Hexameron of, 28

Basile, St., 257

Bear, The, and the tom cat, 333

Bear, The Great (constellation), 80

Bee, The, 25, 38;
“the Bee and Creation,” 27;
outwits the Devil, 63, 71, 72;
becomes black, 63, 71;
becomes narrow waisted, 64, 71;
gives honey and wax, 64;
given its sting, 64;
the mole and, 65;
outwits the mole, 67;
feeds on itself, 68;
the brick-carrier daughter, 70;
made first, 135;
stolen by the Gipsy, 135;
belongs to the Rumanians, 136, 137;
God’s blessing on, 138

Beetle, Nun, 132, 134

Beetles, Horned, 102;
red beetles, 107, 108

“Belief” in fairy tales, 3

Beliefs, Ancient, in folk-tales, 37, 39

Ben Sira, Hebrew alphabet of, Animal stories from, 357

Benfey, Pantschatantra, 324, 326.
See Panchatantra

Benjamin, Bishop, of Moldavia, 120

Berachya, 32

Bible, The, in the vernacular, Arians, 44;
the Cathars, 47;
forbidden by the Catholic Church, 47

Biblical legends, 57, 278, 319

Bird of heaven, The, 256

Birds, The king of the, 151;
singing of the, 151;
the colouring of the, 148, 156;
the king of the (wren), 300;
(eagle), 302;
and the sparrow-hawk, 303;
accuse man, 339;
plead for man, 340

Black One, The, 241

Black Sea, The, 247, 248

Blackbird, The, 151

“Bluebeard” 34;
Bluebeard story parallel, 261

Bogomilism, 25, 26, 31, 36, 44;
in Rumania, 52;
in Russia, 53

Bogomils, 50, 51

Boris, King, 44

Bosnia, 46, 52

Broadside, Political animal, 33

Brick-carrier daughter, The (bee), 69

Bubureaza, 113

Buddha, 25

Buddhist teaching of metempsychosis, 23

Buffalo, The, and the gnat, 310;
race with the hare, 315;
walks slowly and treads lightly, 316

Bugs, Charms against, 223

Bukovina, 58;
Bukovina peasants and beetles to produce milk, 109

Bulgaria, Survivals in, 10;
the saints in, 40;
Bogomilism and, 51;
creation stories, 65

Bulgaro-Vallachian kingdom, 51

Bulgars, 15;
Tartarian language of the, 18;
in the Balkans, 44;
Christianity among, 44;
unity with Rumanians, 51

Bull, The, in the Avesta, 96

Bullfinch, The origin of the, 158

Bull-fly, The, 102

Bulls or cows of the Lord, 103, 107, 109

Burgundy, Arianism in, 43

Bush, The wonderful, and the cuckoo, 164

Butterflies with the sign of St. Anne’s ring, 203

Byzance, 31, 51, 53

Byzantine myths, 12

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