Part 19

Fairest maid, description of, 112.

Fairies baffled by cross, 115.

Fairies carry off princess, 107, _et seq._ require a mortal’s help, 89, 107. meet annually on November night, 122.

Fairies turn into flying beetles, 89.

Fairy help to mortal withdrawn, 142.

Fairy dwelling filled with smoke and lightning, 143; hill opens, 87.

Fairy horses unspelled, 115. host, noise of, 105; takes horse, 106. king and queen, 87. hurling match, 87.

Fairy spits fire, and frightens Pope, 110.

Father, cruel, cuts hands and feet off daughter, 168. punished, and healed by daughter, 169.

Fearless hero, 156, _et seq._, sleeps with corpse, 158.

Feather supporting house, 131.

Finn’s mother a fawn, 17.

Flea killed by valiant tailor, 2.

Football players in haunted house, 158.

Fox, hiding-place for, 5.

Geasa run, 21.

Ghost denouncing murderer, 159.

Ghost laying by fortune distributing, 159.

Giants, two, crushed by stone, 9, _et seq._

Giant outwitted by lying reports, 29.

Giant slits himself up, 11.

Goblin, headless, in cellar, 81, 157. drinks and plays music with hero, 83; bagpipes for fairies, 85.

Grateful dead, 21, 23, 153. beggar, 156; robin, 165.

Guarding monsters, 134.

Hags, enchanted, turn vultures, 163. condemned for father’s crime, 164. turned into swans at end of enchantment period, 166.

Hag turned into weasel, 79. welcoming, sister to hero’s nurse, 131.

Hair turns into ladder, 140.

Hare magic, 162.

Haunted house, 81.

Healing well, 129.

Helping servant, 148. saves ungrateful master, 157.

Herb for blood-stopping, 149.

Herb of healing, 165.

Hero, grown rich, visits home, 161. joins fairy host, 106.

Heroine and attendant maidens made pregnant in their sleep, 135. seeks father of children, 139. recovers magic gifts abandoned by hero, 139, _et seq._ tests false claimants, 140. full up of serpents banished by first embraces, 45. under spells, 37.

Horse, swift as lightning, 132. talking, 2. hiding-place for, 3.

Husband, not to re-marry till grass be foot high on dead wife’s grave, 167.

Incurable sore foot, 129.

Inexhaustible milk-can (fairy gift), 142. water and bread, 134. purse, 91.

Kiss, first, from heroine, claimed by helping servant, 45.

Lion, ploughing, 7; guarding, 134.

Magic gifts abandoned by hero, 139.

Mary’s shamrock (? four-leaved), 142.

Murderer revealed by ghost, 160.

Mutilated (hands and feet) heroine married, 168; restored after birth of triplets, 168.

Night entertainment run, 29.

Nonsense ending, 15, 128.

November night for fairy gatherings, 122.

One-eyed supernatural being, 144.

Pin of slumber, 39, 43.

Piper in haunted house, 158.

Poison, King of, 39.

Pole of combat, 27, _et seq._ of combat run, 27.

Pope compelled to reinstate priest, 110.

Priest refuses to exorcise, 143; exorcises bewitched hags, 163.

Princess, ill to death, cured by taking head off her, 149. promised to task performer, 2. released from fairies, 115.

Purse that empties not, 91.

Purses bestowed by supernatural being, 91, 144.

Quest for healing water, 129.

Recognition of hero by heroine, 141.

Robin grateful, brings herb of healing, 165.

Safety token (stone), 129.

Servant’s wage, 23.

Silence bespelling removed, 168.

Skilful companions, gunner, listener, runner, blower, stone-breaker, 23-27.

Sleep, magic, 147; of enchanted queen over in seven years, 134.

Slumber pin in horse’s head, 43.

Smelling giant, 27.

Speech restored by herb, 125.

Spikes crowned with skulls, 39.

Step-mother (hag) accuses step-daughter, 168.

Stone-breaker crushes sharp stones, 45.

Swift runner and hag race, 43.

Swiftness, slippers, 33.

Sword that leaves leavings of no blow behind it, 37.

Sword of light, 135.

Tailor, valiant, 2.

Taboo on telling about fairy gifts, 142. broken and punished by loss, 143.

Threefold entertaining by hags, 130.

Three sons start for healing water, 129.

Travellers’ seat in wood, 131.

Unwashed feet of hero, 104.

Wages, half of what is earned, 148.

Wages of help servant refused, 150.

Weasel brings money, 73; attacks despoiler, 75; kills cow, 77; turns into hag, 77.

Well of healing balm, 41. of healing water, 129.

Workmen’s wages, 7.

Witch released by Masses, 79.

Witch’s hut to be burnt after death, 79.

Youngest son succeeds, 138; envied by elder brothers, 138, _et seq._; made a scullion, 139.

Youth, restoration to, 135.