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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.