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Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 65, 178, 195, 213, 219
Rat, The, journeys to God, 318;
and the daughter of the sun, 318
Raven, The, 170;
croaking omen, 175;
and drought, 178;
and burial of Abel, 178;
of Noah’s ark, 278;
turns black and feeds on carcases, 279;
eggs hatched by frost, 279;
the bird of oracle, 279;
in mythology, 279;
Rumanian popular beliefs, 280;
a bird of ill-omen, 280;
the young of the, 357;
why it hops in its walk, 363;
why it mates differently, 364
Religious character of Rumanian animal tales, 1, 5;
religious beliefs, 3;
religious cause for unity of folk-lore, 11;
religious sectarians and use of animal tales, 31;
propaganda and popular rhymes, 47;
popular religious songs, 48
Reverence, Lack of, in the stories, 39
Reynard cycle, 54
Reynard the Fox, 8, 31;
and the clergy, 33
Ring, The, and the fish, 271
Roads and pathways, 179
Romans, 15
Rosebush, The, and the soul, 341
Royal Asiatic Society, Journal, 30, 356
Rumania, The saints in, 40
Rumanian animal tales, Characteristics of, 1;
religious character, 3;
the interest of their study, 4;
their two groups, 4;
similarity with those of other nations, 6;
their origins, 7, 17, 36;
their survival, 9;
parallels, 20;
fables not found among the, 23;
not local, survivals, or isolated, 23;
their source, 25, 26;
fables not “humanised,” 28;
their moral nature, 58;
syncretism, 59
Rumanian language, Slavonic in, 17, 18;
and the gipsies, 17;
of Latin origin, 17;
purity of, 17;
elements of other languages in, 18;
no old Teutonic words in, 50
Rumanian peasantry, Superstitions of, 55
Rumanian Popular Literature, History of, 30.
See Gaster
Rumanians of Latin origin, 10;
how long in Rumania, 50;
unity with the Bulgarians, 51;
and the wasp and bee, 135, 137
Rushava, 117
Russia and the transmission of folk-tales, 24;
the saints in, 40;
heterodox sects, 53
Russian tales, 22, 26, 27;
animal tales, 53
Ruthenians, 22
