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Wagtail, The gipsies’ bird, 161;
“half a bird,” 161;
its borrowed tail and why it wags it, 228
Wanderer, Poems of the, 15
Wart, Mole, charm against, 179
Wasp, The, as the Gipsy’s bee, 135, 137;
David and the use of, 358
Water, The birds dig for, 176, 178
Waters made holy by Baptism, 80;
of life and death, 263
Weasel, Charm if bitten by a, 354;
not among the creatures of the sea, 366
Weaver son, The (spider), 69
“Wedding Feast of Tom, The,” 22
Wells, The birds dig, 176, 178
Wheelwrights (bull-flies), 103
“Who killed Cock Robin?” 33.
See also Cock Robin
“Who killed the cat?” 33
Widow, The, and her two children, 69
Wife, Bad, Charm against, 132
Willow tree, The, St. Mary, 344
Wind, The, 126;
and the rat, 318
Wine, Noah and, 91;
St. Dionysios and, 93
Witchcraft, 54, 55;
and the illness of animals, 348
Witches, 89;
philtres and spells of, 175
Wlislocki’s Zigeuner-märchen, 65, 87
Wolf, The, 25;
and the lamb, 27;
myths of the, 49;
St. Peter’s dogs, 77, 81;
why the wolf is ferocious, 79;
made by the devil, 79, 82, 83, 85;
power over the devil, 80;
the devil’s hairs, 80, 81, 82, 83;
the eyes fired by the devil, 81, 82;
the devil becomes a wolf, 84;
eats the devil, 85;
God’s dogs, 88;
kills the goats, 88;
the boasting, 309;
and the pointer and setter, 317;
and the Sultan’s horse, 329;
and the lion, 329, 331;
and the tom cat, 332;
challenges the dog, 335;
in stories from Ahikar, 355;
and the dog, 361
Woman, Inquisitive old, who became the woodpecker, 141;
the greedy old, who became the tortoise, 180
Women, The lark and the taming of, 296
Woodpecker, Origin of the, 141
World-wide range of fairy lore, 4
Worms in apples, 122;
Day of the worms, 123;
that eat the cherries, 202;
charms against worms in beasts, 352, 353
Wren, The, lends its tail to the wagtail, 228;
becomes king by a trick, 300;
a furtive bird, 301
