‘Red Riding Hood’ xxiv, 114, 115 , 116
‘Sleeping Beauty’ 25, 53, 133, 134 , 137–8, 174, 176
Peters, Clinton 35
Pitré, Giuseppe 66
Plato 53
poetical animals 30
poison 15, 21, 25, 88
political correctness 172
political sensitivity 169–70, 173
politics 146, 153, 156, 170–3
polygamy 78
Prokofiev, Sergei 162
promises 31, 40
prophecy 30, 41
Propp, Vladimir xx, 61
psychoanalysis 113–16, 130 Bettelheim 121–5
Freud 117–21
Jung 125
Pullman, Philip 63, 64, 95, 116, 157
Puttenham, George 7
Rackham, Arthur 22 , 101, 104
Rais, Gilles de 85–7, 91–2
rape 80, 133
rationality 146, 154, 156–7
Ravel, Maurice 169
re-visionings xiv, xv, 17, 63, 136, 148
realism 73, 74–81, 84–5, 91, 95–6
reason 98, 147–8
Red Riding Hood 26, 114–16, 122, 125
Rego, Paula 58 , 110
Reiniger, Lotte 34, 104, 167–8 , 169, 170
religion 2, 7, 151
Rich, Adrienne 136
riddles 41, 42, 118
Romanticism 8–11, 23–4, 54, 63, 65, 68, 98, 103
Rossetti, Christina 4, 12–14, 94
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 98, 101
Rowling, J. K. 17, 95, 177
Runge, Phillip Otto 23
Rushdie, Salman xiv, 151
Ruskin, John 5, 94–5
Russia xiv, xx, 61, 67, 69
Sade, Marquis de 141
sadism 92, 141
sado-masochism 94
Sander, Eckhard 87–8
Sandman, the 119–20, 164
Scandinavia xiv, xx, 69
Scotland xiv, 7, 11, 67–8
Scott, Walter xiv, 11–12
second sight 7–8
self-censorship 172–3
Sendak, Maurice 8
sex education 135–6
Sexton, Anne 137–8
Shaftesbury, Lord 102
Shakespeare, William 4, 5–7, 9 , 42, 88, 149
shape-shifters 6, 34
Shaw, George Bernard 85
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 9
sisters 13, 26–7, 37, 58, 118, 133
Sleeping Beauty 25, 133, 134 , 137, 174, 176
Smith, Kiki 125
Snow White 36, 87–8, 124, 137, 144, 174–6
social reform 94–5
song(s) 6, 55, 57, 64, 164, 167
sons 27, 79, 118–19
Soviet Union 170–1
spells 30, 31, 36, 37, 40, 41
Spenser, Edmund xviii
splitting 123–4
Spufford, Francis 70
starvation 80
Stephenson, Craig 129
stepmother 24, 31, 33, 37, 51, 88, 123, 124, 133, 174–5
stories 61–2
storytelling 12, 43, 53–4, 94, 98, 138 as framing device 51–3
variations 64–5 see also narrative
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco 50–1, 53
Stukeley, William 7
Sumpter, Caroline 103
symbolism xix, 24, 70, 113–14, 120, 122, 130
Taglioni, Marie 158
Tatar, Maria 80–1, 114, 179
Taylor, Edgar 105
television xvii, 159
Tenniel, John 99
theatre 159–65
Thelwall, John 9
Thomas of Erceldourne (Thomas the Rhymer) 10, 12
Thousand and One Nights, Tales of the, see Arabian Nights
‘The Three Heads in the Well’ 42
Tiffin, Jessica 154
Todorov, Tzvetan 149–50
Tolkien, J. R. R. xix, xxi, 2, 16, 179
Toro, Guillermo del 176
Tournier, Michel 81, 86
translations 46–7
transmission xvii, 72, 98, 159
Ugrešić, Dubravka 157
uncanny 23, 30, 112, 120
Uncanny, The 119–21, 150, 164
Undine 23–4, 160
utopianism 94, 142, 153, 154
Velay-Vallantin, Catherine 89–90
Verdú, Maribel 174–5
Victoria, Queen 158
Viehmann, Dorothea 60
Villeneuve, Mme de 39
violence 79
Voltaire 151, 156, 163
Waldeck, Margarete von 87–8
Wales xiv, 68
Warnes, Chris 150
Weber, Carl Maria von 160
Weber, Eugen 80
Wette, Adelheid 164
wicked queen 24, 25, 30, 36, 88, 123, 148, 165
Wilde, Oscar xiv
Wilde, Speranza xiv, 14
Williams, Margery 19
Windling, Terri 166–7, 172
Winterson, Jeanette 70–1, 77, 148
witchcraft 86
witches 24–5, 27, 133
wolves 25–6
wonder tales xxii
Woolverton, Linda 142, 177
words, magic of 40–3
Wright, Minnie 68
Wynne-Jones, Diana 104
Yeats, W. B. xiv, 14
Young Adult fiction 142
Zipes, Jack 66, 81, 120, 138
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