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B
Balderich, the Giant, 150
Banou, the Fairy Peri, 97
Banshee, the, 97, 165
Baring-Gould quoted, 190
Barra, Giant in, 174
Battle of the Birds, the, 71—81
 a sun myth, 77
 kindred tales, 82
Beauty and the Beast, 2, 98
 in old Hindu legends, 8
 kindred with Eros and Psyche, Urvasî and Purûravas, and Orpheus and Eurydiké, 53
 and other tales, 82
Berkhyas, the Dïv, described, 110
Bheki, the frog, story of, 24, 78
Big John and the Bocan, 161
Blind Man, Deaf Man, and the Rakshas, story of, 103—109
Blue Bird, 2
Blunderbore, the Giant, 191
Bocan, the, a kind of Brownie, 160
 Big John and the Bocan, 161
 Callum Mohr MacIntosh and the Bocan, 161
Boggarts, the, 136
 another form of Robin Goodfellow, 137
 story of a Yorkshire Boggart, 138
Boobrie, a Water Spirit in form of a great bird, 164
Brother, meaning of the word, 19
Brownies, 136
 more helpful than Boggarts, 139
 the farm spirits, 160
Brynhilt, 35, 97
 
C
Callum Mohr MacIntosh and the Bocan, 161
Campbell, J. F., his Popular Tales of the West Highlands, 71
 story of Conall Cra Bhuidhe quoted, 87
 full of curious stories, 160
 on the Fuath, 165
 on Gaelic Giants, quoted, 173
Changelings, 167
 stories of, 167—170
 the Tailor and a, 170
Charon ferries the souls of the dead, 47
Church bells disliked by Trolls, 144
Cinderella, 2, 98
 story told in all countries of Europe, 8
 legend of, 33
 meaning of, 33, 185
Centaurs, 95
Clodd, on Aryan names, 19
Conal Cra Bhuidhe and the Giant, 87
Connal, son of King Cruachan, and the Giant, 174
Cormoran, the Cornish Giant, 191
Cumberland legend, 133
 
D
Dasent, Dr., his Norse Tales, 54, 80, 143
Daughter, meaning of the word, 19
Dawn, typified by Cinderella, 33