Wills, Barclay. Shepherds of Sussex, 1938.
Yeats, W. B. Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Ltd, 1973; paperback Pan Books, 1979. ISBN 0-330-25769-2) Originally published as two books, 1888 and 1892.
Not folklore but never mind
Blanton, De Anne, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8071-2806-6)
Dekker, Rudolf M., and Lotte C. Van De Pol. The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave MacMillan, 1997. ISBN13 978-0312173340)
And for those who want to go further
Burn, Lucilla. Greek Myths (British Museum Publications, 1990. ISBN 0714-120-618)
Evans, George Ewart. The Horse in the Furrow (Faber and
Faber, 1960; paperback Faber and Faber, 1971. ISBN 0-571-08164-9)
Hart, George. Egyptian Myths (British Museum Publications, 1990. ISBN 0714-120-642)
Hughes, Thomas. The Scouring of the White Horse (1859; reprint Alan Sutton, 1989. ISBN 0-86299-563-9)
Judge, Roy. The Jack in the Green (D. S. Brewer, 1979; revised edn FLS Books, The Folklore Society, 2000. ISBN 0-903515-20-2) Opie, Iona and Peter. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford University Press, 1959. ISBN13 978-0940322691)
Opie, Iona and Peter. Children’s Games in Street and Playground (Oxford University Press, 1969. ISBN13 978-0192814890)
Page, R. I. Norse Myths (British Museum Publications, 1990. ISBN 0714-120-626)
Pegg, Bob. Rites and Riots: Folk Customs of Britain and Europe (Blandford Press, 1981. ISBN 0-7137-0997-9)
Philip, Neil. The Penguin Book of English Folktales (Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 0-14-013976-1)
Philip, Neil. The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales (Penguin Books, 1994. ISBN13 978-0140139778)
Quiller-Couch, Arthur. The Oxford Book of Ballads (Clarendon Press, 1910, many reprints)
Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. ISBN 0-297-00220-1)
Wilson, Stephen. The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe (Hambledon and London, 2000. ISBN 1-85285-251-8)
We have put in a couple of the pioneering regional studies, as they give a taste of the whole range of folklore in a community (tales, beliefs, customs, sayings etc.). The hyphen isn’t a mistyping, that was the way the word was spelled then:
Burne, Charlotte. Shropshire Folk-Lore A Sheaf of Gleanings (London, 1883)
Leather, Ella Mary. The Folk-Lore of Hereford (London, 1912)
Index
Abraxas, on the Quisition, (i)
Aching, Granny, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Aching, Tiffany, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
abilities, (i), (ii)
and Dance of the Seasons, (i)
ties with the Chalk, (i), (ii)
training as witch, (i)
Achmed the Mad, (i)
afterlife
as constellation, (i)
Christian teaching about, (i)
for dwarfs, (i)
for Heroes, (i), (ii)
for Nac Mac Feegle, (i)
Hell, (i)
in Ancient Egypt, (i)
individuals’ experience after death, (i)
journey to, (i), (ii), (iii)
Judgement in, (i)
Agi Hammerthief, (i)
Ainsworth, Harrison, (i)
Albert (Alberto Malich), (i)
on Hogswatch, (i)
Albertus Magnus, (i); Book of Secrets, (ii)
Alexander the Great, (i)
Aliss, Black, (i)
alligators, (i), (ii); see also crocodiles Allingham, William, (iii)
Amalthea the Goat (Capricorn), (i), (ii)
America, North: traditions in, xiv, (i), (ii), (iii)
among native peoples, (i)
Easter Bunny, (i)
Santa Claus, (i)
Tooth Fairy, (i)
See also H. P. Lovecraft
American Civil War, women soldiers in, (i)
Amonia, Queen, (i)
Andromeda, (i), (ii)
Angua, Sergeant, (i), (ii)
Ankh, kings of, (i)
Ankh-Morpork
banshees in, (i)
City Watch, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
customs of, (i), (ii)
dragons as pets, fashion for, (i)
dwarfs in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
foundation legends, (i)
golems in, (i), (ii)
Nac Mac Feegle in, (i)
religion in, (i), (ii)
royal heir to, (i), (ii)
secret societies in, (i)
treacle mines, (i), (ii)
trolls in, (i)
vampires in, (i)
See also Unseen University
Ankh-Morpork Folk Dance and Song Society, (i)
Ankh-Morpork Folklore Society, (i)
Annagovia, Duchess of Borogravia, (i)
Annis, Black, (i)
Anoia, goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers, (i)
Anybody, Rob, (i)
Apocalypse, the, (i)
Apocralypse, Four Horsemen of the, (i)
Arthur, King, xii, (i), (ii)
Arthur, Wee Mad, (i)
Ashmole, Elias, (i)
Asimov, Isaac, (i)
Assassins, Guild of, (i)
Astfgl, Lord, (i)
Athene, (i)
Atlantis, (i)
Aubrey, John, (i)
Auditors, the, (i)
Azrael, (i)
Aztecs, the, (i)
Baba Yaga, xii, (i), (ii)
banshees, (i)
Barber, Paul, (i)
basilisk, (i)
Bathory, Countess Elizabeth, (i)
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, (i), (ii)
bean, conferring kingship, (i), (ii), (iii)
Bears, Pavement, (i)
Beating of the Bounds, (i)
bees, (i), (ii)
Bellerophon, (i)
Bel-Shamharoth, (i)
Beowulf, (i), (ii), (iii)
Bergman, Ingmar: The Seventh Seal, (i)
B’hrian Bloodaxe, (i), (ii)
Bible, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Binky, (i)
Black School, (i)
bogeymen, (i), (ii)
books, magical, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Bord, Janet, (i)
Borogravia, (i), (ii)
Borrowing, (i), (ii), (iii)
Botticelli, (i)
Boughton, Rutland: The Immortal Hour, (i)
Bovet, Richard, (i)
Bran, (i)
bread, dwarf, (i)
Brendan the Navigator, St, (i)
Brewer, Billy (Wizard of the West), (i)
British Folklore Society, x brochs, (i)
Broomfog: Anima Unnaturale, (i)
broomsticks, (i)
Brutha, (i)
Caesar, C. Julius, (i)
Cailleach Dubh, (i)
Cake, Mrs Evadne, (i), (ii)
Cake, Ludmilla, (i)
Cantre’r Gwaelod, (i)
Carelinus, Emperor, (i)
Carmilla, (i)
Carmilla, Aunt, (i)
Cenotine script, (i)
Cerberus, (i), (ii)
Ceres, see Demeter Ceridwen, (i)
Cerne Abbas Giant, (i)
Cernunnos, (i), (ii), (iii)
Chaffinch’s Ancient and Classical Mythology, (i), (ii), (iii)
Chalk, the, (i)
Nac Mac Feegle, (i)
shepherds, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
watching of the dead, (i)
White Horse, (i)
witches in, (i)
Chambers, Robert, (i)
Chandler, Keith, (i)
changelings, (i)
Charon, (i), (ii)
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Canterbury Tales, (i)
chests, wooden, deadly, (i); see also Luggage
childre
n
and Pied Piper, (i)
Christmas gift-bringers for, (i)
customs kept by, (i), (ii), (iii)
fairy tales for, (i), (ii)
games, (i), (ii)
Hogswatch and, (i)
see also changelings, Nursery Bogeys, Prohibitory Monsters, tooth fairy
Chimera, the, (i)
Chriek, Otto, (i), (ii)
Christ, buttocks of, (i)
Christ Child, (i), (ii)
Christmas traditions and observance, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Boy Bishop, (i)
gift-bringers, (i)
hunting the wren, (i)
King of the Bean, (i), (ii)
Santa Claus/Father Christmas, (i)
cinema, influence of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Coca-Cola company, (i)
cockatrice, see basilisk
Cohen the Barbarian, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Conan the Barbarian, (i)
Cori Celesti, (i), (ii)
Cornucopia, (i)
crocodiles
and basilisk, (i), (ii)
crocodile gods, (i)
Cronus, (i)
crop circles, (i)
Crowley, Aleister, (i); Moonchild, (ii)
Cthulhu, (i)
Cú Chulainn, (i), (ii)
Cutangle, Archchancellor, (i)
Dadd, Richard: Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke, (i)
Dagon, (i)
Dahut, (i)
dance, cosmic, (i); Dance of the Seasons, (ii); see also Death, Morris dancing Dante, (iii), (iv)
Davies, Sir John: Orchestra, (i)
Death (anthropomorphic personification), (i)
appearance and attributes, (i)
appointments with, (i)
bargains with, (i)
dancing ability, (i)
dealings with clients, (i), (ii)
horse of, (i)
House of, (i)
on Discworld, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
on Earth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
see also afterlife
de Chumsfanleigh, Roland, (i), (ii), (iii)
Defoe, Daniel, (i)
de Magpyr family, (i), (ii), (iii)
Demeter (Ceres), (i), (ii)
Demons, (i), (ii), (iii)
relationship with humans, (i), (ii)
Detritus, (i)
Devil, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
de Worde, William, (i)
Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, (i)
Djelibeybi
gods, (i), (ii), (iii)
pharaohs, (i), (ii)
portrayal of Death, (i)
Sphinx, (i), (ii)
dobby stones, (i)
dogs
Black Dogs, (i)
devotion to master, (i)
grimhounds, (i)
three-headed, (i)
see also Cerberus, Gaspode
Dorfl, (i)
Dracula, (i)
dragons, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Common Swamp Dragon (Draco vulgaris), (i), (ii)
Draco maritimus immensis (Middle-Earth Worm), (i)
Draco nobilis, (i)
hold on Earthly imagination, (i), (ii), (iii)
Moon Dragons, (i)
teeth, producing warriors, (i)
Drake’s Drum, (i)
draug, (i)
dress, traditional
for women, (i), (ii)
of Christmas gift-bringer, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
of demons, (i)
of dwarfs, (i), (ii), (iii)
of Nac Mac Feegle, (i), (ii), (iii)
of Valkyries, (i)
of vampires, (i), (ii)
of witches, (i)
druids, (i), (ii)
ducks, (i)
Running of the Ducks (Ubergigl), (i)
Soul Cake Tuesday Duck, (i), (ii), (iii)
Dungeon Dimensions, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Dunmanifestin, (i)
Dunmow Flitch, ix, (i)
Dunwich monster, the, (i)
dwarfs, (i), (ii)
and religion, (i)
associated with mines and metalworking, (i), (ii)
culture and law, (i), (ii)
females, (i), (ii)
feud with trolls, (i), (ii)
funerary customs, (i)
grags, (i)
legends among, (i), (ii), (iii)
names, (i)
Early, Biddy, (i), (ii)
Earwig, Mrs Letice, (i), (ii)
Eberley, Susan Shoon, 60 Edda, The, (i)
eggs
cosmic, (i)
Easter, (i), (ii)
on Soul Cake Tuesday, (i), (ii), (iii)
repository for soul, (i)
Egwin, St, (i)
Egypt, Ancient
gods, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
myths: of Afterlife, (i); of Benu Bird (phoenix), (ii); of Osiris, (iii)
sphinxes, (i)
eight, magical number on Discworld, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
elephants
in Hindu cosmology, (i)
supporting the Disc, (i); Fifth Elephant, (ii)
Eliot, T. S.: East Coker, (i)
elves, (i), (ii), (iii)
abductions by, (i), (ii)
and changelings, (i)
and Santa Claus, (i)
as Nursery Bogeys, (i)
decline on Earth, (i), (ii)
glamour, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
hatred of iron, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
home of (Elfland/Fairyland), (i)
house-elves, (i)
king, (i), (ii), (iii)
malevolence to humans, (i), (ii)
precursors of tooth fairy, (i)
see also Fairy Queen
Ephebe
attitude to gods, (i)
philosophical ideas in, (i), (ii)
Ereshkigal, (i)
Esk (Escarina Smith), (i), (ii)
eyes, detached, (i)
fairies, see elves, gnomes, godmothers, Nac Mac Feegle, pixies, tooth fairy
Fairyland, nature of, (i)
Fairy (or Elf) Queen, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); see also Mab Fate, (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Fates, the, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Father Christmas, (i), (ii)
Feegles, see Nac Mac Feegle
femininity, attitudes to among dwarfs, (i)
in Earthly societies, (i)
Fertile Feet, (i)
Finn MacCool (Fingal), (i)
firebird, see phoenix fish, lost items discovered in, (i)
fishermen, beliefs and customs among, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
flabberghast, 106 Flying Dutchman, (i)
folklore
children and, (i), (ii)
in cities, (i)
nature of, x, xii–xiv, (i)
origin in ‘folk memory’, (i), (ii)
patterns of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); see also narrativium
folklorists, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
theories of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
football, (i)
Frankenstein, Doctor, (i)
Frazer, Sir James, (i); The Golden Bough, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor, xii, (i)
Frighteners, see Nursery Bogeys, Prohibitory Monsters
Fri’it, (i), (ii)
funerary customs
in Djelibeybi, (i)
in the Chalk country, (i)
laying out and watch-night, (i), (ii)
of dwarfs, (i)
of Gypsies, (i), (ii)
of Heroes, (i)
of Igors, (i)
of shepherds, (i)
of Vikings, (i)
of witches, (i)
on Earth, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
games
children�
��s, (i), (ii)
of the gods, (i), (ii), (iii)
Thud, (i), (ii)
See also football
gargoyles, (i)
Garlick, Magrat, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Gaspode (the famous one), (i)
Gaspode (the modern one), (i), (ii)
George, St, (i), (ii)
German folk traditions, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
ghosts, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
ghost ships, (i), (ii)
Giza, Great Sphinx of, (i)
gnomes, (i), (ii)
Verruca Gnome, (i)
See also Nac Mac Feegle, tooth fairy
goblins, (i), (ii)
godmothers, fairy, (i), (ii)
gods, (i)
adherence to fashion, (i), (ii)
and First Hero, (i)
and the seasons, (i)
ban flying machines, (i)
belief in, (i)
Cenotine god, (i)
Christian God, (i)
Dark Gods, (i), (ii)
dwarfs and, (i)
horned gods, (i), (ii), (iii) lokapala, (iv)
love of board games, (i), (ii)
mass destruction by, (i), (ii)
shepherds and, (i)
triple goddess, (i), (ii)
See also Agi Hammerthief, Summer Lady, Tak, Wintersmith and entries for individual gods
Gogol, Mrs, xii, (i)
gold
attraction for magpies, (i)
importance to dwarfs, (i)
of sleeping warriors, (i), (ii)
golems, (i)
ancient Discworld specimens, (i), (ii)
appearance and composition, (i)
given life by written words, (i), (ii)
in Jewish tradition, (i)
need for master, (i), (ii)
gonnagles, see under Nac Mac Feegle Gottskalk, (i)
Grallon, King, (i)
Graves, Robert: The White Goddess, (i)
Great A’Tuin, (i), (ii); see also turtles
Great Dunmow, Essex, ix
Greebo, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Greece, Ancient
funeral customs, (i)
gods, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
heroes, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
myths: of Atlantis, (i); of basilisk, (ii); of Chimera, (iii); of constellations, (iv); of Cornucopia, (v); of Hell and Underworld, (vi), (vii), (viii); of Prometheus, (ix); of salamander, (x); of sphinx, (xi), (xii); of werewolves, (xiii)
philosophical ideas in, (i)
green, as lucky colour, (i)
Green Man, (i)
Greyfriars Bobby, (i)
Grimm, Brothers, (i), (ii); Jacob, (iii)
Gryla, (i)
Gryle, Mr, (i)
Gwion (Taliesin), (i)
Guntram, King of the Franks, (i)
Gynt, Peer, (i)
Gypsies
funerary customs, (i), (ii)
Hachi-koh, (i)
hair, used as snare, (i), (ii)
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