Briggs, Katharine (English folklorist), xvi–xxi, 33, 55, 67, 98, 100, 101, 113, 121, 123, 141, 142, 143, 144, 149
Briggs, Winifred E. (informant), 99
Brown, Ambrose (informant), 77
Brown, Miss (informant), 71
Brownie, x, xxvi
Brunvand, Jan Harold (American folklorist), 140, 141, 142, 144
Buckinghamshire, 90
Burial: of apparent dead, 89; of bones of murdered stepdaughter, 28; of bones of ghost, 66
Buried treasure: gold, 45–46; jewelry, 84; revealed by Apple-Tree Man, 44–46
Burne, Charlotte S. (English folklorist), vii, xvi, 52
Burton, Robert, xix
Butler, E. M. (English folklorist), 35, 77
Calder, George (Scottish folklorist), 56
Cambridge and County Folk Museum, xxi, xxx
Cambridgeshire, xxi, 59, 81, 84, 90, 110, 148
Campbell, Marie (American folklorist), 79
Canadian tradition, 55, 99, 133
Carr, Elizabeth (informant), 47
Cars of Lincolnshire, xviii, xxii
Cat: curious, frightened by Apple-Tree Man, 46–47; curious, taken by Devil, 105–106; helpful, leads boy home, 80; transformed witch as cat haunts fishermen, 57
Cattle: as transformed pixies, 56
Cemetery. See Churchyard
Ceylonese tradition, 130
Chambers, Robert (Scottish folklorist), 11, 26, 54
Changeling, x
Charles I: protected by Fenmen, 84–86; mentioned, xxviii
Charles II, mentioned, 95
Charms, ritual nature of: blood smeared on doorsill, 40; bread and salt on stones, 40–43 passim; cider poured at roots of apple tree, 45, 47; grass cut, 45; herbs, 45; nails driven in heart of bullock, 95; walking around house, 40; water poured in field, 40; wine poured on doorsill, 41
Charms, purpose of: for good harvest, 40–43; for fairy help in love, 35–36; for rain, 40; to fatten donkey, 45; to propitiate bogey, 40; to protect primitive man, x
Chaucer, Geoffrey, mentioned, ix
Child, Francis James (American ballad scholar), 38, 54, 119, 130. See also Ballads
“Childe Rowland”, xxiii–xxiv
Chinese tradition, 33, 130
Christiansen, Reidar Th. (Norwegian folklorist), xxvii, 37, 38, 70
Church: bribed boy lies in c., 118; Drake’s cannon-ball drops before c., 95; fertilized, 130; giant helps build, 70–71; parrot answers parson in c., 117; St. Paul’s (cathedral), 78
Churchyard: bones buried to lay ghost, 66; fertilized, 130; open grave, 61–62; sexton robs grave, 89; thieves divide loot, 116; witch chased from, 111–12
Clodd, Edward (English folklorist), v, 10
Clouston, William Alexander (Scottish folklorist), 130
Contest: between giant and Devil, 71–73
Copenhagen, 99
