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
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
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
Blackbird, The, 151
“Bluebeard” 34;
Bluebeard story parallel, 261
Bogomilism, 25, 26, 31, 36, 44;
in Rumania, 52;
in Russia, 53
Boris, King, 44
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
Byzantine myths, 12