Gypsy folk-tales
by Francis Hindes Groome
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Contents
- ‘Pazorrhus’
- Distribution of Gypsies
- Appearance in West
- At Bologna
- At Paris
- In England
- In Scotland
- In North America
- In South America
- In Australia
- Transportation
- In Crete
- In Corfu
- In the Peloponnesus
- In Roumania
- The Chaltsmide
- Athingani
- Atsincan
- Komodromoi
- Nails of Crucifixion
- Gypsy Language
- Gypsies as Nomads
- Caldarari
- Ciboure
- ‘Greek Gypsies.’
- Eastern Gypsies in Galloway
- Gypsy Folk-tales
- Campbell of Islay
- Dr. F. Müller
- Dr. Paspati
- Dr. Barbu Constantinescu
- Miklosich
- Wlislocki
- Dr. R. von Sowa
- Dr. Kopernicki
- John Roberts
- Mr. John Sampson
- Campbell of Islay
- Boat-dwelling Tinkers
- Kounavine
- Theory as to Gypsy Folk-tales
- Gypsy Variants
- Unique Features
- Literary Sources
- Questions of Date
- Indian Parallels
- Tokens of Recent Diffusion
- The Anthropological Theory
- Gypsy Savagery
- Gypsy Migrations
- Gypsy Originality
- Gaelic and Welsh-Gypsy Stories
- Other Parallels
- Irish and Gypsy Folk-tales
- Gypsy Story-tellers
- Story-telling a living Gypsy art
- Possible Gypsy influences
- Theory
- No. 1.—The Dead Man’s Gratitude
- No. 2.—Baldpate
- No. 3.—The Riddle
- No. 4.—Story of the Bridge
- No. 5.—The Vampire
- No. 6.—God’s Godson
- No. 7.—The Snake who became the King’s Son-in-law
- No. 8.—The Bad Mother
- No. 9.—The Mother’s Chastisement
- No. 10.—The Three Princesses and the Unclean Spirit
- No. 11.—The Two Thieves
- No. 12.—The Gypsy and the Priest
- No. 13.—The Watchmaker
- No. 14.—The Red King and the Witch
- No. 15.—The Prince and the Wizard
- No. 16.—The Apples of Pregnancy
- No. 17.—It all comes to Light
- No. 18.—The Golden Children
- No. 19.—The Two Children
- No. 20.—Mare’s Son
- No. 21.—The Deluded Dragon
- No. 22.—The Gypsy and the Dragon
- No. 23.—The Seer
- No. 24.—The Prince, his Comrade, and Nastasa the Fair
- No. 25.—The Hen that laid Diamonds
- No. 26.—The Winged Hero
- No. 27.—Tropsyn
- No. 28.—The Beautiful Mountain
- No. 29.—Pretty-face
- No. 30.—The Rich and the Poor Brother
- No. 31.—The Three Brothers
- No. 32.—The Enchanted City
- No. 33.—The Jealous Husband
- No. 34.—Made over to the Devil
- No. 35.—The Lying Story
- No. 36.—Happy Boz’ll
- No. 37.—The Creation of the Violin
- No. 38.—The Three Golden Hairs of the Sun-King
- No. 39.—The Dog and the Maiden
- No. 40.—Death the Sweetheart
- No. 41.—The Three Girls
- No. 42.—The Dragon
- No. 43.—The Princess and the Forester’s Son
- No. 44.—The Three Dragons
- No. 45.—Tale of a Foolish Brother and of a Wonderful Bush
- No. 46.—Tale of a Girl who was sold to the Devil, and of her Brother
- No. 47.—The Brigands and the Miller’s Daughter
- No. 48.—Tale of a Wise Young Jew and a Golden Hen
- No. 49.—The Golden Bird and the Good Hare
- No. 50.—The Witch
- No. 51.—Bobby Rag
- No. 52.—De Little Fox
- No. 53.—De Little Bull-calf
- No. 54.—Jack and his Golden Snuff-box
- No. 55.—An Old King and his three Sons in England
- No. 56.—The Five Trades
- No. 57.—Ashypelt
- No. 58.—Twopence-Halfpenny
- No. 59.—The Old Smith
- No. 60.—The Old Soldier
- No. 61.—The Dragon
- No. 62.—The Green Man of Noman’s Land
- No. 63.—The Black Lady
- No. 64.—The Ten Rabbits
- No. 65.—The Three Wishes
- No. 66.—Fairy Bride
- No. 67.—Cinderella
- No. 68.—Jack the Robber
- No. 69.—The Fool with the Sheep
- No. 70.—The Tinker and his Wife
- No. 71.—Winter
- No. 72.—The Black Dog of the Wild Forest
- No. 73.—The Brown Bear of the Green Glen
- No. 74.—The Tale of the Soldier
- No. 75.—The Fox
- No. 76.—The Magic Shirt
- Appendix
- De New Han’
- John Bunyan
- Corrections