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488 General Index

Heriger (Archbishop), 145, 149, 261–62 infant baptism, 106
Herrad of Landsberg, 82 initiation, 73, 91
Herren, Michael, 387n69 Innocent III, Pope (Lothar of Segni),
Hesione, 74–75
Hesperus, 229 404n121
hiatus, 429n21 ioca monachorum, 148–49
hide, 146–47, 153, 158, 159, 161; birth in, ioculatores, 129
Ireland, 71
356; burning of, 201, 204, 210, 212–14, Isengrin, 149–50
220–21, 349, 352, 355, 364; removal of, Isidore of Seville, 237
348–49, 352, 354–55, 360, 364; sale of, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,
265–71, 302, 306, 308–9, 312–13, 315–16;
tearing to shreds of, 360 419n52
Hildebrandslied, 165
Hinduism, 224 “Jack and the Beanstalk,” 62, 63
Hisperica famina, 78–79, 249–53, 387n69 Jacques de Vitry, 234–35
historical writing, 233 Jaeger, C. Stephen, 141
historic-geographic method, 21, 51, 59, Jaffa. See Joppa
95, 130, 161 Jahn, Ulrich, 212
historicism, 11, 13, 14; idealistic, 13 Jauss, Hans Robert, 106
Hohenstaufen dynasty, 204, 219 Jean Renart, 402n100
Holbek, Bengt, 62, 368n15, 381n154 Jehan de Grise, 434n79
Holberg, Ludwig, 160 Jephthah’s daughter, 213
Holy Spirit, 115–19, 286, 399n67 Jerome, 76, 85, 90, 109
Homer, 36, 120, 151 Jerusalem, 218–19
homo narrans, 38 Jesus Christ, 75, 81–82, 90, 145; in tales,
hood, 288, 400–401nn84–85. See also rid-
ing hood 254, 261–62, 292, 295, 430n35
hook, 82 Jobin, Bernhard, 178
Horace, 115, 182, 229 Johan, P. Grot, 371n29
horn, magic, 50, 132, 146, 147, 157, Johannes Hymmonides, 87
409n33; in tales, 272–76, 290–93 John (Abba), 263–64
horse, 132, 138–39, 146, 147, 153; in tales, John Chrysostom (pseudo-), 87
266, 312, 315–16. See also donkey (mare) John of Alta Silva (Hauteseille), 37, 44,
that defecates coins
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, 382n12 55, 63, 234
Hugo of Trimberg, 173, 191, 204, 205, John the Baptist, 261
418n30, 436n108 John the Deacon, 87
humanism, 13 Jokosus, Hilarius, 414n128
humanities, 11, 12, 13 Jolles, André, 45, 55, 377nn102–3
Jonah, 56, 64, 80–88, 232; bald,
IIdbrn¯ısF¯ı,ad˙Alashn-,SAhha˙mr¯ıfadal,-,7171
Immermann, Karl Liebrecht, 78 391nn104–5; and Herakles, 75; naked,
Imola, 296 391n105; and Perseus, 76; in tales,
Indianism, 20, 130, 201–2, 371n20 241–43, 247; and the whale, as miracle,
Indo-European, 12, 20, 59, 131 48; in whale three days, 91
Indra, 220, 351 jongleur, 5, 129, 149
Joppa, 75–76, 80, 86, 242
Josephus, Flavius, 75
Juno, 222, 347
Jupiter, 222, 229, 346, 347
Juvenal, 88

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Kalevala, 54 logues, 67–72, 79; and sacred legend,
Kamenetsky, Christa, 372n46 47, 56; and wonder, 144, 148
Karadžic´, Vuk Stefanovic´, 54 Lethe, 293
Kassel, 172 Le Tourtier, Raoul, 72
Ketos, 74–75, 78 Leviathan, 73, 81, 82
kettle, that boils spontaneously, 157 Levinsen, Niels, 212
Kibitz, 156, 307–11 Leyen, Friedrich von der, 12, 14, 114
king, 181, 186, 193, 203, 207–8, 341–50, licking. See feet, licking of
lie, 145, 177, 287, 406n158. See also lying
353–55, 356–60 tale
“King Lindorm,” 212 Liège, 100, 124
“King Pig,” 211–12, 214, 355–61 linen, 111
Kleine und der große Klaus, Der (film), Linnaeus, Carl, 108
lion, 109, 327; Nemean, 120
410n55 lions’ den, 109
knight, 183, 186, 188, 193; in tales, 322, Lisa, 291
literacy, 41
324, 326, 331, 332–34, 345–46, 354 Little Black Sambo, 150, 412–13n104
Knights, Clerics, and Peasants, The “Little Claus and Great Claus,” 125–26,
132, 137, 152–60, 311–20
(Des chevaliers, des clercs et des vilains), “Little Ida’s Flowers,” 125
135 “Little John,” 149
Köhler, Reinhold, 202, 371n20 “Little Mermaid, The,” 125
Krohn, Julius, 380n142 “Little Peasant, The” (KHM 61), 156, 187
Krohn, Kaarle, 21, 122, 219, 380n142 Little Red Riding Hood, 33, 47, 57, 67,
Kronos, 67 72, 82–83, 92, 93–124
Kugel, James L., 392n109 Little Red Riding Hood (film), 65
Kunstmärchen, 19, 43, 51, 54 loathly lady, 135
Küstner, Erich, 78 Lochhan (son of Lugir), 399n67
Lönnrot, Elias, 54
Lachmann, Karl, 28 Lontzen, Günter, 394
Laicus, Johannes, 17 Lord, Albert B., 2, 43, 375n87
Lamia, 115 Lorenzini, Carlo. See Collodi, Carlo
Lang, Andrew, 20, 59 lost literature, 115, 403n114
Langland, William, 174 Louis XI, King, 180, 181
Langosch, Karl, 25, 173–74 Lucan, 229
“Lantfrid and Cobbo,” 217, 255–57 Lucian, 76–77, 78, 79, 80, 88; pseude-
Laomedon, 74 pigrapha of, 201, 206–7
Latin, 5–6, 36–43, 70, 169–70, 205, 239. Lucina, 222, 229, 342
“Lucius, or The Ass,” 201, 206–7
See also Medieval Latin Lügenmärchen, 47, 56, 179. See also lie;
Lay Le Freine, 112 lying tale
Lay of Hildebrand, 165 lute, 203, 213, 215–17, 228; in tales, 342–
lecture, 40 45, 353–54
legend, 56, 92, 207 Luther, Martin, 84
leisure literature, 233 Lüthi, Max, 196
Le Mans, 67 Lycophron, pseudo-, 74
leonine hexameters, 69, 382nn12–13
Leprince de Beaumont, Marie, 3, 46, 66,

209–10
Letaldus of Micy, 81–83, 232, 238; and

oral and written sources and ana-

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lying tale, 56, 57, 179. See also lie; Lügen- marvel: in The Donkey Tale, 48; in
märchen Egbert, 106, 124; and fairy tale, 231;
and folktale, 234; in Grimms’ “The
lyre, 216–17, 243. See also lute Turnip,” 197; in later Middle Ages,
184–85; in One-Ox, 144, 147–48; in real
Macpherson, James, 34, 199 life, 49; in tales, 324, 332, 342, 427n145
Madanarekha, 220–21, 350–53
Magi, 295 Marxism and Marxist interpretation, 13,
magic tale, 47, 62. See also wonder tale 19, 32, 137–39
Mainz, 261
Mandeville, John, 76 Mary, 42
manners, 211, 218, 223, 228, 354; book of, “masculine” tales, 62, 63
mayor, 132, 136, 138–39; in tales, 267–85,
209
manuscripts, 67, 89, 234; related to The 303, 306–7, 310–11
McGlathery, James M., 368n7,
Cambridge Songs, 376n96; of The Don-
key Tale, 168–69, 205; of Egbert, 101; 427–28n147
in Latin, transcribed by Jacob Grimm, measure, 153
417n18; in Latin, used by Brothers Medieval Latin, 18–19, 28, 35
Grimm, 35, 64, 436n112; of Letaldus, Megacles, 422n85
About a Certain Fisherman, 381n5; of Meissonier, Ernest, 415–16n5
One-Ox, 126; of The Turnip Tale, 168– Meldina, 359–61
69, 175, 426n136 Meletinsky, Eleazar, 221
manuscript tale, 54–55 Melusine, 221
many-stagedness, 203 menarchy, 111. See also menstruation
Marburg, 167 Menippean satire, 216
Märchen, 172, 232, 369n2; antiquity and menstruation, 105, 116. See also menarchy
durability of, 161; collections of, 47; merchant, 53, 259, 286–95
etymology of, 46, 49; and fairy tale, Merovingian, 37–38
29, 50, 164, 202; and folktale, 31, 129, metaphor, 192
168; Grimms’ conception of, 196, 197, metempsychosis, 222
226, 238; life-history of, 95; and mice, 103, 120
One-Ox, 130. See also Buchmärchen; Michael (Saint), 92
folktale; Kunstmärchen; Lügenmärchen; Mickey Mouse, 150
Märlein; Schreckmärchen; Schwank- Micy, 67
märchen; Volksmärchen; Warnmärchen Midrash, 85–86
Märchenfrau, 62 “Midrash Jonah,” 86
Marcolf, 151, 162, 218. See also Salomon et Midrash Tanhuma, 85
Marcolfus “Midsummer Night’s Dream, A,” 217
mare. See donkey (mare) that defecates Mieder, Wolfgang, 371n30
coins; horse Migne, Jacques-Paul, 237
Maremma, 293 migrationism, 12, 201, 221. See also
Marie de France, 402n100
Märlein, 130, 164, 408n18. See also diffusion(ism)
Märchen miming, 129, 146, 201, 214–19; in tales,
marriage, 221, 223. See also wedding
Mars, 331 258, 343, 345, 348
Marseilles, 248 minstrel, 214–19, 222, 353
Martial, 405n145 minstrel epic, 218
miracles, and marvel, 48, 106, 144, 197;

book of, 90; mockery of, 412n84; and
nature, 84; in tales, 248, 267; of swal-

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lowing by whale, 88–91; and wonder, “Naughty Boy, The,” 155
50, 145–49, 163, 184–85, 232–33 Naumann, Hans, 60
Mirror for Priests, 87 Navigatio sancti Brendani, 89
misogyny, 207–9, 234 Neoptolomus, 350, 443n82
miter, 111 Nereids, 75
“Modus florum,” 42, 127, 143, 145, 207 “Neuwen Zeytungen auß der gantzen
“Modus Liebinc.” See “Snow-Child,
The” Welt,” 178
Moe, Jørgen, 17 “New Tidings from the Whole World,”
Molorchus, 120
monogenesis, 20. See also diffusion(ism) 178
monologue, 192 Nicholas (Nectarius) of Casole (Abbot),
Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 24
moon, 73 188
moral, 139–40, 178 Nigel “Wireker” (de Longchamps). See
moralization, 106, 175–76, 205
Morgan, Jeanne, 100 Speculum stultorum
Morolf, 218. See also Marcolf Nikiforov, Alexksandr Isaakovich, 62
Mother Goose rhymes, 119 Nina, 296–99, 301
motif, 21, 22 Nineveh, 80, 85, 241
Mowgli, 107 Nivard of Ghent, 24, 150
mule, 296–97. See also donkey Noah, 101
Müller, Josef, 131 Normandy, 72
multistratification, 203 Northumbria, 71
Munchausen, Baron, 56, 248–49. See also Nourry, Émile Dominique, 59
Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich novella, 45, 49, 133, 142, 161, 183, 235–36;
Hieronymus, Freiherr von
Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich in tales, 286, 290, 295
Hieronymus, Freiherr von, 77–78, 88 numskull tale, 56
Münchhauseniads, 77 nurse, 57
Murat, Madame de, 211 nursery, 58; tales, 102, 234
Musäus, Johann Karl August, 307 Nykrog, Per, 135, 141
music, 211, 212, 214, 408n14; in tales, 255,
362–63 ocean, 90
musical instrument, 161, 223, 230, 255. See Odin, 187–88
also horn, magic; psaltery Odo of Cheriton, 234
Mysach, 128 Odyssey, 88
myth, 56, 57, 59, 91–92, 201, 207, 219; official culture, 41, 53
nature, 72; solar, 72–73, 111 official literature, 41
mythological school, 59 Ohthere, 70
oikotype, 39
nakedness, 80, 86, 87, 88, 249. See also Olaf Tryggvason, 112
clothes, loss of Old Wives’ Mill, 135
old wives’ tales, 118
Napoleon Bonaparte, 164–66 Ölenberg Manuscript, 171, 191
narrative thrift, 230 Olrik, Axel, 376n89
narratology, 109 onanism, 105
nationalism, 31, 34, 199 onomatopoeia, 217
once upon a time, 236; as opening of

De la Mare’s “The Turnip,” 195; as
opening of The Donkey Tale, 48, 60,
221, 230, 341; as possible element in

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once upon a time (continued ) parallelism, 229
Egbert, 106; as opening of Grimms’ Paris, 329
“The Donkey,” 203; as opening of Paris, Gaston, 141, 202
“Lantfrid and Cobbo,” 217; as indicat- Park, Katharine, 423–24nn99–105
ing Middle Ages, 23; as opening of parody, 144, 145
Perrault, 117; as opening of Pinocchio, paronomasia, 192. See also wordplay
66; as opening of The Turnip Tale, 339 Parry, Milman, 43
Parry-Lord theory, 61
One-Ox, 33, 63, 69, 125–63, 239, 264–85; parson, 160. See also deacon; priest
and “fatal deception,” 187; opening patriarchy, 196, 207–9
strophes of, 48–49; and wonder, 49, patrimony, 207–8
232–33 Paul, Saint, 292
Paul the Deacon, 24
Ong, Walter, 205 Paulinus of Nola, 398n51
Opie, Iona and Peter, 25, 368n9 Pausanias, 75
Oppenheim, D. E., 137 peasant, 179, 193; and baptism, 106;
Ops (queen of money), 277
oral and written, 9, 131, 159–60; blurring enriched, 151; and folk, 51–53, 116; Ger-
man, 31, 191; glorified, 32; Molorchus,
of boundaries between, 30, 45, 58, 98; 120; One-Ox, 136, 140, 143; and
in Finnish school, 95–96; interchange proverbs, 101; in tales, 265, 286, 289,
between, in antiquity, 122; interchange 291, 297, 324, 331–33; as teller of Little
between, in Middle Ages, 5, 16, 19, Red Riding Hood, 104, 112; as teller of
40–41, 64; style of, 8 tales and not writer of poems, 5, 57,
orality, 8, 37, 41, 54, 225 118, 174, 398n545; as trickster, 133–34,
oral tradition, 101–2, 175 146–47, 152, 154, 157, 163, 213. See also
oral traditional composition, 40, 61 farmer
Ordo Prophetarum, 88 “Peasant Pewit, The,” 414n120
Orientalism, 202. See also Indianism Pedersen, Vilhelm, 414–15n136
origins, Eastern, 218, 224, 234–35; Indian, Peer Degn, 160
7, 12, 201, 212, 219, 408n20; of fairy Pentecost, 103, 106–7, 114–17, 119
tales, 50; of folktales, 8, 11, 19–22, 29– Percy, Thomas, 54
30, 32–33; of Letaldus’s oral story, 69; Perrault, Charles, 59; as author of
of national history and culture, 34. See “classic” fairy tales, 3, 8, 25; as collec-
also Indianism; primitive tor of fairy tales, 43, 44; as inventor of
Orosius, Paulus, 70 fairy tale, 33; 140, 236, 238; and Little
Orpheus, 243 Red Riding Hood, 93, 98–100, 107,
Ossian (Oisin), 34, 43. See also Ossianism 110, 111–14, 116–17, 120–21, 123–24,
Ossianism, 34, 165, 199. See also Ossian 146; as source for Aarne and Thomp-
(Oisin) son, 97; as source for Collodi, 66; as
otherworld, 145 source for Disney, 65; and term “fairy
Otto IV, Emperor, 185 tale,” 46
Ovid, 225, 229, 403n115, 435n106 Perseus, 73, 75–76
Ovidiana, pseudo-, 205 personification, 192
ox, 132, 265–85, 308–9, 318, 333, 339 Peter, Saint, 262, 292
Peter Pan, 66
pagina, 225 Petit Chaperon Rouge, Le, 100
Palantrini, 157 Petrus Alfonsi, 42, 174, 233
Panchatantra, 434n85
paradise, 133, 145

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pewit, 308 programmatic statement, 47, 56, 129, 142
Pfaffe Amis, 133 prologue, 141
Phaedrus, 216 Propp, Vladimir IAkovlevich: and Croce,
philology, 1, 11, 13, 25, 58, 59, 95–96,
13–14; and historic-geographic
402n106; classical, 36; and folkloris- method, 21–22; and Marxist scholar-
tics, 122–23; Medieval Latin, 30; ship, 32; and morphology, 123; and
nationalist, 27–28 opposition between song and folktale,
Phoebus, 221, 229, 344 129; and “polystadiality,” 203; and
Physiologus (Old English) 71, 81, 91 Russian folktale, 35; and wonder tales,
Piers Plowman, 143, 174 59–60, 370n14
pig, 355–61. See also hedgehog; swine proverb, 101, 140, 182–83, 228, 420n54; in
Pincaruolo, 159 tales, 279, 359
Pindar, 243 provost, 132–33, 136, 138–40, 145–47; in
Pinocchio, 56, 64; film, 65, 66. See also tale, 266–85
Collodi, Carlo psalter, 263
placelessness, 221 psaltery, 217, 257
Pliny the Elder, 76, 177, 182, 422n85 Psyche. See Cupid and Psyche
Plutarch, 422n85 Puss in Boots (film), 65
Poem of Walter, 24, 69
Polívka, Jirˇí (Georg), 18 queen, 196, 203, 207–8, 228, 345, 353,
polygenesis, 20, 73–74, 224 356–59
polystadiality, 203
Pomponius, Lucius, 434n79 question-and-answer dialogue, 73
popular culture, 51 Quintilian, 102
popularity, 52
Popular Tales and Romances of the rabbit, as messenger, 157, 288–91
Northern Nations, 307 rags to riches, 49, 163, 204, 211, 213
Porthan, Henrik Gabriel, 170 Ramsey, 91
Poseidon, 74 Rank, Otto, 73, 367n6
positivism, 13 Ranke, Kurt, 33
Postrema, 296 Raoul. See Rodulfus Glaber; Rodulfus
pot, magic, 287–91
potter, 351 Tortarius
preacher, 5, 53 Raparius and Rapularius. See Turnip Tale,
pregnancy, 42
Premasena, 220–21, 350–51 The
Prestre qu’on porte, Le, 135 Rasmus Berg, 160
priest, 128, 132, 136, 138–40, 158, 160; in Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 77–78, 248–49
tales, 262–63, 267–85, 300, 301–2, 306–7, raven, 304–5
361. See also deacon; sexton rebirth, 73
“Priest in the Pit, The,” 150, 160 recitation, 129
primitive, 7 red, 108, 110, 111, 114, 115–18, 399n68. See
prince, 143, 186, 200, 213, 215, 264
Prince Charming, 63 also clothes: red
princess, 200, 201, 204, 206, 226 reeve. See provost
“Princess and the Pea, The,” 125, 155, rejuvenation, 135
413n114 Remus. See Romulus and Remus
Renaut, 402n100
reportatio, 40
resurrection, 48, 82, 85, 90, 135, 148, 272,

292. See also resuscitation, of dead

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resuscitation, of dead, 132, 135. See also Salomon et Marcolfus, 151
resurrection Samnites, 182
San Nicola (Casole), 188
Reynard (the Fox), 20, 24, 108, 133–34, Sanskrit, 203, 219–24, 429n10
140, 150, 162, 187 Satan, 334. See also Devil
satire, 101, 139, 188
rhetoric, 172, 192 sauerkraut, 167, 198
rhyme, 69, 127, 429n21 Savigny, Friedrich Karl von, 169
ridiculum, 57, 134, 149, 233, 235 Saxo Grammaticus, 234
riding hood, 110, 119, 121 Scarpafico, 295–301
Riise, J. Chr., 159 Scaurus, Marcus, 76
“rise tale,” 431n53. See also rags to riches Schelmenroman, 133
Ritz, Hans, 399n64, 400 Schenda, Rudolf, 368n8, 379n133
Rochester, 67, 68, 81, 88, 246 Schmeller, (Johann) Andreas, 127
Rodulfus Glaber, 70, 81 scholar, 187–88, 194, 328–30, 337–38,
Rodulfus Tortarius, 72
Roger II, King, 71 340–41
“Rognvalds þáttr ok Rauðs,” 112 school, 61–62, 188, 204, 209
Röhrich, Lutz, 33, 45, 374n59 Schreckmärchen, 119
romance, 30, 162, 165, 174 Schumann, Valentin, 158–59
Romance of the Rose, 117 Schwank, 45, 130, 161, 235
Roman de Renart, 150 Schwankbiographie, 133
Roman de Thèbes, 216 Schwankmärchen, 47
Romanticism, 5, 7, 16, 20, 22, 23, 34, 45, Schwanknovelle, 133
Schwankroman, 133
50, 104, 164–65, 169–70, 190, 199, 200, Scobie, Alexander, 374n70, 428n7,
238
Rome, 76 429n10, 434nn87–88
Romulus (supposed author of fables), 101 scopophilia, 224. See also spying
Romulus and Remus, 107, 398n51 Scott, Walter, 54
rooster, 212, 213, 362–64 Scylla, 81, 244
rose, 116–17, 201 sea monster, 72–73, 74, 78, 79, 80, 85, 88
Rosenberg, Bruce A., 372n45, 382n9 selection, 114
Ruckard, Georg Christoph, 414n128 Seneca the Younger, 422n85
Rumpf, Marianne, 107, 109–10, 112 sententia, 101
Ruodlieb, 69, 141, 432n65, 437n128 Sercambi, Giovanni, 159
Rus’, 37–38, 71 sermon, 40, 234
serpent, 90, 212
Sabadino degli Arienti, Giovanni, 183 Seven Sages, 234
sack, 144, 154, 155, 158, 162, 187; 193, 207; sex, 105, 206–9, 217, 224
Sex and the City, 10
in tales, 293, 294, 300–301, 312, 314, 315, sexton, 160. See also deacon; priest
318–20, 329–31, 337–38, 340–41, 342. See Sextus Empiricus, 74
also barrel; cask; chest Shakespeare, 217
Sage. See legend shamanism, 187–88
sailor, 83, 85, 88. See also tall tale sheep, 262, 300–301, 303, 306, 311, 333
St. Peter’s (Gembloux), 126, 128 shepherd, 293–94, 303, 306, 310–11. See
saints’ lives, 88–90. See also hagiography
Saintyves, Pierre, 59 also drover; swineherd
Salman, 218–19 shoemaker, 269–70, 411n75
Salman und Morolf, 218–19

General Index 495

Sicily, 219 and collecting of fairy tales, 235, 238;
Sigebert of Gembloux, 101, 126 and “Father Scarpafico,” 157–58; and
sight, loss of, 68, 247. See also blind frame tale, 37, 44; and “King Pig,”
silence, 234 214, 295–301; and “rise tales,” 211–12;
Silk Road, 219 and Wunderkammer, 185; as earliest
simile, 192 author or collector of fairy tales, 25,
“Simple Simon,” 155 26, 33, 55. See also “King Pig”
skin, bleaching of, 77; burning off of, Strasbourg, 166–69, 177–78, 198, 226
Strepsiades, 188
247. See also hide Sulzer, Johan Georg, 421n69
slave, 133, 134 Sumeria, 217
Sleeping Beauty, 62, 64 sun, 72–73. See also myth, solar
Sleeping Beauty (film), 23, 65 supranationalism, 1, 31, 35
“Snow-Child, The,” 42, 63, 127, 140, 145, supratemporality, 35
Swabian, 42, 145, 204, 257, 260–61
207, 408n18; in tale, 257–60. See also swallowing stories, 66–67, 72–73, 74–89,
Child Who Was Melted in the Sun, The 243–49
Snow White, 62 Swan Maiden, 221
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (film), swine, 133, 139, 146, 261, 282–84. See also
65 hedgehog; pig
social order, 189 swineherd, 147, 155, 282–84. See also
Socrates, 188 drover; shepherd
soldier, 194, 339 “Swineherd, The,” 155
soliloquy, 192 sword, 244, 245
Solomon, 218. See also Salomon et Sydow, Carl Wilhelm von, 39, 123
Marcolfus symbolism, 105
song, 143 synonymy, 192
Song of the South, 150
Sophron, 434n79 Tabarin, 144
Soriano, Marc, 100 “Table-Be-Set” (KHM 36), 146
“source study,” 30 tailor, 301–3
Spain, 294 “Tale of the Two Brothers, The,” 32
Speculum sacerdotale, 87 tale types, 21
Speculum stultorum, 205 tall tale, 42, 56, 57; fishermen’s and
speech, 192, 193
spying, 221, 222. See also scopophilia sailors’s, 69, 71, 248–49; and large
stability, 113–14, 131, 160, 402n106 vegetables, 177, 179. See also
Statius, 216, 229 Lügenmärchen
steel (and flint), 244, 245 tanner, 308
stenography, 40 Tantalus, 326
Stephen of Bourbon, 234–35 Tarshish, 80, 86, 242
sterility, 229. See also barrenness Tatar, Maria, 25, 368n9, 427n147,
Storia di Campriano contadino. See Story 428n150
of the Peasant Campriano, The teacher, 53
Story of the Peasant Campriano, The, 157, Tegethoff, Ernst, 31, 33, 232
158, 285–95 Terentianus Maurus, 417n15
“Story of Vikrama¯ditya’s Birth, The,” Teuerstadt, 204
219–24, 350–53 text, 41
Straparola, Zoan (Giovan) Francesco;

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textuality, 40, 164–65 Tylor, Edward Burnett, 20, 59
Thecla of Iconium, 109 Tzetzes, Isaac, 74
Theophylaktos of Ohrid, 75 Tzetzes, John, 74–75
Theudegaud, 149
Thompson, Stith, 21, 57, 95, 97, 123, 130, Uckermark, 307
Uncle Remus, 17, 53, 134, 150
176 underworld, 73, 86, 244
Thoms, William, 378n119 Unibos, 33, 132. See also One-Ox
three, days and nights, 75, 80, 81, 91, 243; Urban Fettsack, 178
urbanity, 42
in narrative repetition of events, 135 Uther, Hans-Jörg, 21, 123, 130
“Threshing Flail from Heaven, The”
Valerius Maximus, 422n85
(KHM 112), 179 variation, 114, 161
thrush, 301–2 Varro, 216
Tieck, Ludwig, 97, 111, 307 veil, 110
Till Eulenspiegel, 133 Veillodter, Valentin Karl, 421n69
timelessness, 29, 221 Venus, 229, 342
“Tinder-Box, The,” 125, 155 Verschriftlichung, 40, 375n88
Tithonus, 244 Verschriftung, 40, 375n88
tongue, 115–17 Versiera (Satan’s wife), 292
topos, 36 Viehmann, Dorothea, 212
Tortaire, Raoul, 72 Vienna, 172
Traube, Ludwig, 24 Vikrama, 220. See also Vikrama¯ditya
traveler, 57 Vikramacarita, 224
“Traveling Companion, The,” 155 Vikrama¯ditya, 219–20, 352–53. See also
tree, 187. See also woods
trickster, 20, 49, 56, 133–34, 148, 158, 162, Vikrama
Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de
197, 409n36
trivial literature, 233 Gallon de, 210
trivium, 100 Virgil, 36, 68, 108, 205, 229, 398n51,
Trojans, 68, 74
Trubert, 133 400n69, 439n5
trumpet, 217. See also horn, magic virgin birth, 42
tunic, 103, 110–13, 117 voice, disembodied, 222
turnip, 48, 176–86, 194–98; in tales, 322– Volk, 20, 32, 35, 55, 124, 169, 229. See also

25, 327, 331–32, 335 folk
“Turnip, The” (KHM 146), 4, 165, 168– Volksbuch, 178
Volksmärchen, 51, 98. See also folktale
69, 170–72, 179–81, 184, 195–96, 339–41
Turnip Tale, The, 164–99, 322–41; author- Wailes, Stephen L., 418n28, 419nn39–40
Walter Map, 42, 148, 174, 233
ship of, 44; and the marvelous, 48, Waltharius, 24, 69
233; in Latin elegiac couplets, 40, 127; Warner, Marina, 367n5
opening lines of , 61; portrayal of warning tale, 57. See also Warnmärchen
knight in, 143, 162–63, 207, 218; por- Warnmärchen, 47, 119. See also Schreck-
trayal of women in, 63; and “The
Turnip,” 4, 19, 33, 55–56, 238; as a märchen; warning tale
wonder tale, 57 water, holy, 246–47
Turnus, 68 Weber, Max, 7
turtledove, 247
Twelve Labors, 74. See also Herakles

General Index 497

wedding, 206, 209, 215, 227, 364. See also scribed in childhood, 8; in The Donkey
marriage Tale, 213, 224; as fundamental to fairy
tales, 64; in Letaldus, 48; nature of, 45;
werewolf, 108, 110, 223 in One-Ox, 50, 145, 146, 163, 267, 268;
Wesselski, Albert, 25, 45, 53, 55, 59, 60, in The Turnip Tale, 184–86, 189, 196,
197
95, 113–14, 130, 144, 373n57, 396n29 wonder chambers, 185–86
whale, 76, 78–79, 81–85, 89–90. See also wonders of the East, 234
wonder tale, 235–39; The Donkey Tale as,
great fish 57, 200, 224, 230; and magic tale, 47,
whaling, 70–72 62; Medieval Latin examples of, 34,
white, 115–16, 118 44–45; and miracle, 144–46; and nov-
wife, 63, 154, 195–96; in tales, 268, 286– elistic folktale, 49; as technical term
for fairy tale, 19, 55, 64, 370n14; and
93, 323, 325, 333; killed and revived, trickster tale, 162; The Turnip Tale as,
132, 271–76; wears breeches and is 57, 172; and wonder, 184, 196–97, 232,
slain, 309 418n30;
Willems, J. F., 126 woodcutter, 119
William of Malmesbury, 234 woods, 108, 110, 119
William of Newburgh, 234 wordplay, 229. See also paronomasia
wind, 193, 426n134 “world literature,” 3
wine, 116, 261, 301–2, 304–5, 313–14 Wunderkammer, 185–86
wisdom, 189 “Wunschbock,” 33. See “Wish-Goat,
“Wish-Goat, The,” 33, 56, 143, 145, 207, The”
253–55
Within, 67–70, 76, 82–83, 244–48, Xenophon of Ephesus, 109
383n17
wizard, 153 Yalqut Shim’oni, 86
wolf, 103, 105, 107, 109, 110, 112, 116, 120, Ysengrimus, 24, 150, 160
149, 232, 262–63; suckling human
being, 399n67; tamed by saint, 106, Zeman, 78
109 Zeus, 75
Wolf, Friedrich, 17 Zingerle, Ignaz Vinzenz, 17
“Wolf and the Kids, The” (KHM 5), 67 Zingerle, Joseph, 17
wolf children, 107, 108 Zipes, Jack, 25–26, 96, 368n9, 431n44,
Wolfdietrich, 107–8
women, 51, 53, 61; old, 5, 57, 62, 63; rep- 437n5
resentation of, 180–81, 195, 208; in
tales, 273, 275–76
wonder: and miracles, 232–33; as circum-



Index of Tal Types and Motifs

This index identifies only places where specific tale types or motifs are explicitly iden-
tified by their ATU or MI designations

ATU 123: 67, 115, 403n113 ATU 1539: 187
ATU 156: 400n77 ATU 1689A: 33, 162, 176, 322
ATU 300–749: 46 ATU 1737: 162, 187
ATU 328A: 62 ATU 1775–99: 160
ATU 333: 67, 93–124, 403n113 ATU 1889: 77
ATU 410: 62 ATU 1889G: 78, 241
ATU 425–49: 209 ATU 1960: 420n61
ATU 425: 213, 214, 431n42 ATU 1960A: 56
ATU 425A: 431n40 ATU 1960D: 176, 177
ATU 425B (AT 428) 431n42
ATU 425C: 62, 201, 210, 431n40 MI A535: 384n37
ATU 430: 33, 200, 213, 214, 341, 428n6 MI B103: 320
ATU 433B: 212 MI B103.1.1: 146
ATU 440: 23, 62 MI B641.4: 213
ATU 441: 214, 432n57 MI B641.5: 214
ATU 510–510A: 62 MI B771: 108
ATU 563: 146 MI C31.1.2: 435n94
ATU 709: 62 MI C758.1: 213, 214
ATU 852: 42, 376n94 MI D132.1: 213, 428n7
ATU 973: 80 MI D361.1: 435n94
ATU 1362: 42, 376n92 MI D457.13: 320
ATU 1525: 162 MI D563: 320
ATU 1525A: 131, 187 MI D721.3: 213, 214, 434n90
ATU 1535: 33, 130–31, 187, 408n31 MI D963: 213

499

500 Index of Tal Types and Motifs

MI D1221: 320 MI K135: 321
MI D1222: 320 MI K527: 321
MI D1223.1: 320 MI K714.2: 321
MI D1224: 320 MI K842: 187, 321
MI D1442.12: 108 MI K890: 321
MI D1454.5: 320 MI K890.1: 321
MI D1791: 320 MI K891: 321
MI D1865: 321 MI K894.3: 321
MI E55.3: 321, 409n33 MI K941: 321
MI F111: 321 MI K941.1: 321
MI F701: 321 MI K944: 321
MI F725: 321 MI K971: 67
MI F730: 389n84 MI K1051: 321
MI F910: 388n73 MI K1816.6: 321
MI F911.4–F921: 384n36 MI K1860: 321
MI F911.4: 384n37 MI L143: 321
MI F912.1: 384n37 MI L144: 321
MI F912.2: 384n37 MI N534: 322
MI F913: 66, 384n37 MI N534.6: 322
MI F921: 74 MI N630: 322
MI F922: 384n37 MI P412.2: 322
MI F931: 321 MI Q467.1: 322
MI H342.1: 376n94 MI R245: 389n84
MI H507.2: 376n94 MI S226: 214
MI J216: 321 MI S241: 212–13
MIJ512.4: 432n67 MI S264.1: 80
MI J1115.6: 321 MI S334: 402n99
MI J1532.1: 376n92 MI T554: 214
MI J1761.1: 389n84 MI X1411.1.1: 177
MI J2300: 321 MI X1411.2: 177
MI J2401: 321 MI X1423.1: 177
MI J2411.1: 321 MI X1424: 177
MI J2415.1: 176 MI X1431: 177
MI K110: 321 MI X1431.1: 177
MI K111.1: 321 MI X1503: 322
MI K113: 321, 409n33 MI Z49.9: 178, 420n59