Folktales of England

Katharine M. Briggs, Ruth L. Tongue, Katharine M. Briggs, Ruth L. Tongue

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780226074948
  9780226074931
• eBook ISBN:
  9780226375823
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us.

"This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."—Times Educational Supplement

". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."—Choice

"This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."—Quartet

"Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."—Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore

General Index

Aarne, Antti (Finnish folklorist), xvii, 128

Aberdeen, Scotland, 26

Addy, Sidney O. (English folklorist), xv, xvi, xxix, 3, 26, 49, 55, 116, 117

Aesop, vii

Anderson, Walter (Estonian folklorist), 119

Animals, magic, supernatural, or unusual: bird, as soul of dead girl, 28; cat, as transformed witch, 57; cattle, change to pixies, 56; dog, changes to man, 3–5, split, 146–47; donkey, talking, 45–46, protected from evil, 51; elephant, talking, 141; fish, helpful, 8–9, talking, 3; goose, lays golden eggs, 3; horse, leg of removed for reshoeing, 79, of ghost, 108–109, plays cricket, 142–43, spirit, 78; hounds, of Devil, 53–54; lion, talking, 144; ox, charmed, 45, talking, 45–46, 141; rabbit, changes to woman, 53–54

Apple-Tree Man: frightens cat, 47; given cider, 45, 47; reveals treasure, 45–46; mentioned, xxiv

Arabian tradition, 130

Archives: of the School of Scottish Studies, xxvi, 118. See also Indiana University Folklore Archives

Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen (Norwegian folklorist), vii, viii

Ash, John (informant), 55, 71

Asian tradition, 125, 130, 134. See also Ceylonese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese tradition

Aubrey, John (English folklorist), ix, xxvi, xxviii, 62, 77

Australia, 64–65

Australian tradition, vii, 144

Badcock, Walter (informant), 71, 72

Balfour, Marie Clothilde (English folklorist), xviii, xxiii, xxix, 39

Ballads: stories adapted into folktales, vii; widespread in England, v; “Clerk Colvil”, 54; “The Derby Ram”, xvi; “Get Up and Bar the Door”, 130; “King John and the Bishop”, 119; “The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice”, 38; “Tam Lin”, 38

Baring-Gould, Sabine (English folklorist), xvii, 26, 78

Barrett, W. H. (informant), xxi, xxx, 59, 81, 84, 110, 148

Baughman, Ernest W. (American folklore indexer), 3, 6, 17, 27, 39, 62, 64, 66, 89, 90, 94, 95, 97, 98, 101, 109, 113, 115, 116, 117, 123, 125, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 13...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Series Page
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Contents
• I. Wonder Tales
• II. Legends
• III. Jocular Tales
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index of Motifs
• Index of Tale Types
• General Index