‘Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot’ (Snow White and Rose Red) 298, 303, 304, 308; ‘Schneewittchen’ (Snow White) 210–11; ‘Die Sechs Schwäne’ (The Six Swans); 392, 393; ‘Sleeping Beauty’ (see ‘Dornröschen); ‘The Three Feathers’ see ‘Die Drei Federn’; Die Zwölf Brüder’ (The Twelve Brothers) 192, 392–3, 394, 396
Grimm, Dortchen (née Wild) 20, 255, 327, 393
Grimm, Jacob see Grimm, Brothers
Grimm, Ludwig Emil 190; portrait of Dorothea Viehmann 189, 190, 192, 193
Grimm, Wilhelm see Grimm, Brothers
‘Griselda’ 94, 127, 244, 325, 391
Guattari, Félix 418
Guerino il Meschino (Andrea da Barberino) 3–5, 8
Guyon, Madame 92, 94, 95, 171
H
hagiography 225, 249, 325–6, 336–8, 339–40, 341, 345, 346, 360–1, 381
hags 44, 46, 47
hair (see also hairiness) 358fF; blonde xxi, 104, 204, 362–9, 372, 374–6, 375, 378–9, 380–1, 382; maidenhair 374, 377, 377; styles of 365, 371–2, 373–4; symbolic meanings of356, 372–3, 377–8; uncovered 371, 374, 377; water and 382, 406, 407; see also beards
hairiness 353, 354, 358–62, 359, 360, 382–6; see also animals
Hannah 83
‘Hansel and Grete’ xvi, 202, 211
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) 222
happy endings 280–1
Harpies, the 400, 401
Hassenpflug, Dorothea (née Grimm) 20
Heath-Stubbs, John 64
Hecuba 67
Helena, Queen (Saint) 102, 107, 108, 121, 126–7
Heliodorus: Aethiopica 364–5
Henson, Jim: The Storyteller (TV) 351
Heraclitus 67, 73
Heraclius, Emperor 102, 105, 107, 126
Herodotus 106, 144
Herrad, Abbess of Hohenburg: Hortus deliciarum 106, 108, 402
Herzen, Alexander 153
Highmore, Joseph: Pamela Tells a Nursery Tale 294
Hincmar of Rheims 263
Hipponax 152
Hitler, Adolf 364
Hockney, David 207, 227
Hogarth, William: Progress of a Harlot 235
Holbein, Hans 108, 374
Holbek, Bengt 208
Holub, Miroslav 411
Homer 24, 47, 363; Iliad 401; Odyssey 7, 14, 56, 144, 299, 399–400, 400, 402, 409
horses 364, 384
Hortus deliciarum see Herrad
Hours of Catherine of Cleves 62, 64, 104, 110, 122
Hughes, Ted 403; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (film) 310–12
Humperdinck, Engelbert: Hansel and Gretel 222
I
Iambe see Baubô
illustrators: female 300, 310; male 216–17, 242, 244, 246, 247, 299–300, 304
images d’Epinal (Imagerie Pellerin) 231, 232–3, 368–9, 370, 381
Inman, John 147
Inquisition, the 9, 36, 39
Institute Benjamenta (film) 416, 417
Into the Woods (Sondheim and Lapine) 226
Irwin, Robert xix
Isaiah 113, 114, 140, 146, 358
Isidore of Seville: Etymologies 15
Isis 57
Islam 106, 111–12, 242
J
‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ 237
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) 277
Jansson, Tove 411
Jarman, Derek 243
Jephthah 83, 317
Jerome, Saint 113–15, 358
Jesus see Christ
jesters see fools
Joachim, Saint 83, 88
Joan of Arc 77, 260, 368–9, 371, 380
John the Baptist 83, 358
Jones, Malcolm 57
Jones, Terry 411
Jordan, Neil: The Company of Wolves (film) 308
Josephus 106
Judas Iscariot 366
K
Kahlo, Frida 371
Kalevala 16
Kallman, Chester: The Rake’s Progress 57
Katzenstein, Ludwig 191, 191
Keats, John 67
King Kong (film) 277, 295
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane 227
Klimt, Gustav 382
Konwicki, Tadeusz: Bohin Manor 51, 65
Koran, the 112, 116, 118
Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; 410; The Joke 410
Kvapil, Jaroslav: Rusalka (libretto) 396–7
L
Lacan, Jacques 128
Lactantius: The Divine Institutions 68, 70, 72
La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (antiquarian) 174
La Fontaine, Jean de xvii, 76, 94, 326–7, 373; Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon 271; Fables xvii, 163, 165; ‘Les Femmes et le secret’ 56
La Force, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de 277, 281–2, 284; ‘Persinette’ 222–3, 240, 374
Laius 262, 330
Lamb, Charles and Mary 277, 299; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 277, 280
Lambert, Marquise de 342
lameness 121, 152–3
Lamia 7, 67, 152
Lancre, Pierre de 76, 246
Lang, Andrew xiv, 20, 209; Blue Fairy Book 277; ‘Bushy Bride’ 12–13, 12; ‘Rashin Coatie’ 205, 381, 414; Red Fairy Book 375, 393; ‘The Twelve Brothers’ 393
Lapine, James: Into the Woods 226
La Sale, Antoine de 5, 7, 8–9, 11; La Salade 5, 8; ‘Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille’ 5–7, 5
La Tour, Georges de 90
La Tour du Pin, Marquise de 23–4
La Tour Landry, Knight of 31–2, 35
laughter 149, 150, 151–2
Lawrence, D. H. 25
Lazarus 81
Leach, Edmund 327
Leblanc, Georgette 267
Leech, J. 397, 397
Le Franc, Martin 52
Leno, Dan 159
Leonardo da Vinci 406
Cartoon 84, 86
Lesage, Alain-René: Le Diable boîteux (The Limping Devil) 123–4
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 305, 328
Leyden, Lucas van 334
L’Héritier de Villandon, Marie-Jeanne XV, 19, 24, 76, 163–4, 165, 170–2, 174, 175, 176, 184, 187–8, 281, 284, 333, 411; ‘L’Adroite Princesse, ou les aventures de Finette’) (The Subtle Princess) XV, 173, 175, 249–52, 255, 271, 333; Bigarrures ingénieuses (Ingenious Medleys) 170; Les Caprices du destin 252; ‘Les Enchantements de l’éloquence …’ 184–6, 187, 215–16; ‘Le Jugement téméraire’ (The Bold Decision) 252; ‘Marmoisan, ou l’innocente tromperie’ (Marmoisan, or the innocent trick) 19, 135, 176–7; ‘Princesse Olymphe, ou l’Ariane de Hollande’ 260; ‘Ricdin-Ricdon’ 172, 175, 235; ‘La Robe de sincérité’ 172, 177–9, 235; ‘La Tour ténébreuse’ 172–3, 175–6
L’Héritier, Nicolas 170
Lilith 122
‘Little Mermaid, The’ 396, 397, 397–9, 402–3, 404, 406, 407
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ xii, xiv, xviii, 180, 181–3, 201, 243, 269, 280–1, 299, 300, 302
Lochhead, Liz: ‘The Storyteller’ 23
‘Men Talk’ 12
Locman 163, 165
Lombroso, Cesare: La Femme criminelle et la prostituée 56
Loomis, Chester: Mother Goose Tales 154, 157
Loskoutoff, Yvan 94
Lot 132, 328–30, 329, 331, 333–4, 346
Louis XIII, King of France 49, 81
Louis XIV, King of France 55, 77, 81, 82, 89, 92, 94, 95, 170, 234, 242, 281, 284, 326
‘Love Like Salt’ (Geoffrey of Monmouth) 387–8, 391
Lucian (Lucianus of Samosata) 143, 148; Lucius, or the Ass 18, 142, 143–4, 145; True History 144–5
Lucy, Saint 368
lust 45, 47, 355, 355–6, 358
Lustucru 28, 27–9, 43, 44, 48
Luther, Martin 88, 123, 124
Lüthi, Max 367
M
MacDonald, George 411
Madonna (singer) 372
Maclise, Daniel: A Winter Night’s Tale Pl. 12
Maeterlinck, Maurice 267; Ariane et Barbe-bleue 267–8; Pelléas et Mélisande 267, 3
65, 396, 397, 406, 407
Maillard, Olivier 36–7, 53
Maintenon, Madame de (Françoise d’Aubigné) 55, 77, 171, 281
Malory, Thomas: Le Morte d’Arthur 99, 120, 373
Marais, Jean 272, 296, 297
Margaret of Antioch, Saint 258, 259, 260, 264–5, 339
Marguerite de Navarre: Heptaméron 17
‘Maria di legno’ (Wooden Maria) 352
Marie de l’Incarnation 82
Marlowe, Christopher: Dr Faustus 19
marriage and weddings 219–20, 257, 262–3, 269, 277–9, 317–18, 342–5; sex and 278, 345–6
Marshall, William: Bulwer’s Chirologia 90–1, 91
Martin, Sarah 155
Martin of Tours, Saint 126
Mary, Virgin 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 92, 95, 244, 355, 367–8, 373
Mary Magdalen 81, 358, 359
Mary of Egypt 3
Mary of Nijmegen 247; Mary of Nimmegen (miracle play) 121, 247–8
Massys, Quentin: Allegory of Folly 141
Maxentius, Emperor 102, 339
‘Médicin céphalique, Le’ (print) 27–9
Medusa 113, 403
Melanchthon, Philip 123, 124
Méliès, Georges: Bluebeard 241–2, 261–2
Mélusine 6, 7, 24, 397
Ménage, Gilles 168
Menyelek (Menelek) 98
mermaids 113, 114; see also ‘Little Mermaid, The’; sirens; Pl. 10
Messia, Agatuzza 16
metamorphoses xv–xvi, 56, 133, 176; see also animals, metamorphosis as
Meung, Jean de: Roman de la rose 30
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Sistine Chapel ceiling 71; Pl.4
midwives 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 59, 61, 62, 92, 235, 236
‘Milesian’ stories 14, 18, 142, 172
Mill for Old Wives, The (print) 43, 43–4
Milne, A. A. 325
Milton, John: ‘Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ 74–5
Minghella, Anthony: The Storyteller (film) 351
misogyny 30, 31, 207, 208, 227, 239, 416
Molière 168, 277, 298, 326; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 173; Les Femmes savantes 29; Les Précieuses ridicules 29
Monachos, George: Chronicle 98
Monroe, Marilyn 372
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 161
Montaigne, Michel de 48
Monvel, Maurice Boutet de 369
More, Thomas (quoted) 361
‘mother’, use of term 235, 236
Mother Goose ii, xx, 25, 51, 65, 79, 95, 97, 125, 127, 131, 136, 147, 154, 154–6, 155, 157–60, 170, 175, 176, 181, 182, 183–4, 186–8, 190, 215, 229, 230; tales xvi, 39, 52–3, 238, 265; Pl. 13; see also Perrault
‘Mother Holle’ see Grimm Brothers: Frau Holle’
‘Mother Hubbard’ 155, 156, 157
‘Mother Stork’ (‘L Mere Cigogne’) 231, 232–3
mothers 235, 240, 346, 347; absent 201, 204, 205, 206, 210–13, 214, 217, 219, 239
mothers-in-law 218–19, 222, 223–4, 225–6, 227–8, 237–9; see also step-mothers
Munch, Edvard 382
Münchhausen, Baron 144
Murat, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de xiii, 125, 172, 173, 185, 233, 234, 277, 281, 282, 285, 333; ‘Etoilette’ (Starlight) xviii, 173, 177, 215, 333, 365; Histoires sublimes et allégoriques 186–7; Les Lutins du Château de Kernosy (The Goblins of the Castle of Kernosy) 173, 233–4, 282 ‘Le Palais de la vengeance’ (The Palace of Vengeance) 282; ‘Peau d’ours’ (Bearskin) 231–2, 282–3, 354; ‘Starlight’ see ‘Etoilette’
murders: historical 260–1; serial 241, 257, 263
Muses, the 400, 401
N
Nasty Girl, The (film) 396
nationalism 24, 192, 410
Nazis, the 364, 396, 410
Nelson, Janet 223
Neoplatonists 70, 274
Neville, Lady Anne 344–5
Newbery, John: Mother Goose’s Melody 155
Nicholas of Cusa 118
Norcia, Sibyl of 3–10; see also Sibyl, The
Novalis (Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg) 188–9
Novello, Sabilla: The Six Wives of Bluebeard 247
nurses 23–4, 235–6; see also wetnurses
O
Odyssey see Homer
Oedipal myth 262, 320, 330, 349–50, 390
Olav, Saint, King of Norway 372
old wives’ tales 13–14, 18, 19, 25, 209, 230, 231, 238, 239
Onufrius, Saint 358
operas 222, 267–9, 347, 396–7, 398, 407
Oppenheim, Meret 382, 384–5; Pl.25
oracles 74–6, 94, 259
Oracula sibillina 69, 70, 71, 74
oral tradition 14, 24–5, 168, 171, 182, 186, 300, 351, 396
Orderic, Vitalis 242
Ordo prophetarum (Play of the Prophets) 140
Orsa, L’ see Basile
ostriches 113, 114–15, 124
Otranto Cathedral: mosaic floor 112–33, 115; Pls.9, 10
Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul: A Mothers’ Meeting 54
Ovid: Metamorphoses 10, 58, 148, 253, 326, 400
P
Pacher, Friedrich: The temptations of St Justina 121, 122
Padel, Ruth 401–2; ‘Reading Snow White’ 201
Paine, Robert 35
Panchatantra (Bidpai) xvii, 165, 274
pantomine, British 158–60, 188, 196, 236
Paradin, Claude: Devises Heroïques 300
Paraske, Larin 17
Parnell, Dr: Queen Mab 78–9
‘Patient Griselda’ 94, 244, 325, 391
Patrides, Constantinos: ‘The Cessation of the Oracles’ 76
Pausanias 67, 98, 176
‘Peau d’Ane’ see ‘Donkeyskin’
Peele, George: The Old Wives’ Tale 12–14, 30, 377
‘Pelle d’asina’ (Donkeyskin) 351–2
Pelléas et Mélisande see Maeterlinck
Pentamerone, Il see Basile
Perceforest, Le Roman de 220
Périers, Bonaventure des 21, 326
Perrault, Charles xii, xiii, 19, 36, 76, 79, 87, 142, 145–6, 165, 166, 169, 170, 171, 173, 175, 176, 184, 193, 278, 324, 337, 338; ‘L’Apologie des femmes’ 169; ‘La Barbe bleue’ (Bluebeard) xii, xv, 241, 242–4, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256–7, 260, 263, 264, 265–6, 269; ‘La Belle au bois dormant’ (Sleeping Beauty) xii, 183, 207, 220, 221, 222, 269; ‘Cendrillon’ (Cinderella) xii, 48, 203, 206, 207, 233, 321, 347, 361 Contes du temps passé (Contes de ma Mère l’Oye) ii, xii, 18, 22–3, 54, 76, 95, 182, 269; Faerno’s fables (translation) 301, 324; ‘Les Fées’ (The Fairies) 186, 215; ‘Grisélidis’ (Patient Griselda) 94, 244, 325; ‘Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville’ 135; Les Murs de Troye 323; ‘Peau d’Ane’ (Donkeyskin) 18, 94, 171, 222, 244, 321–7, 319, 322, 323, 342, 345, 346, 351, 358, 378–9; ‘Le Petit chaperon rouge’ (Little Red Riding Hood) xii, xv, 180, 181–3, 269; Les Plaisirs de l’Isle enchantée … (attrib.) 298–9; ‘Puss-in-Boots’ xii, xvi, 201, 269, 276; ‘Riquet à la Houppe’ 254–5, 254; ‘Sleeping Beauty’ see La Belle au bois dormant-, ‘Tom Thumb’ xii, 201; ‘Le Triomphe de Sainte Geneviève’ 249
Perrot, Michelle 229–30
Persephone 151
Peter of Cambrai 338
Petronius: Satyricon 101
Petrus Comestor 99
Phaedrus 142, 153, 324
Physiologus 324, 357
Piano, The (film) 405–6, 407
Piero della Francesca: The Legend of the True Cross (fresco cycle) 99, 100–5, 101, 104–5, 107, 108, 117, 132; Pl. 8
Pilpay see Bidpai
Pindar: Olympian 1
Pisanello: Luxuria 356
Pitré, Giuseppe 16
Pius II, Pope (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini) 9
Pizan, Christine de 30, 38, 39, 53, 345 The Book of the City of Ladies 343–4; The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 38; The Debate of Two Lovers 38; The Treasure of the City of Ladies 38
Planché, J. R. 284
Planudes: biography of Aesop 163
Plato 330 (see also Neoplatonists) Gorgias 14
Plutarch: Moralia 395–6
Pomona 148; (Jan van Kessell) Pl. 11
Porta, Gianbattista Della: Natural Magick 368
Porter, Roy 346
Pountney, David: Rusalka 398
Pratchett, Terry 411
précieuses, les 168, 169, 174, 282, 379, 411
pregnancy 259, 260, 261, 262
Princess Brooch and the Sinful Clasp (film) 417
Propp, Vladimir xiv, 238
prostitution 35, 46–7, 235, 357
Psyché 277
Puccini, Giacomo: Turandot 135; Le Villi 410
‘Puss-in-Boots’ xii, xvi, 201, 269, 276
Q
Quay Brothers: The Comb (film) 417; Institute Benjamenta (film) 416, 417
Queen of Sheba see Sheba, Queen of
Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes 169, 184
Quinault, Philippe 277
R
Rabelais, François 53
Rackham, Arthur 242; Cinderella 208; ‘Diamonds and Toads’ 184, ‘Mother Goose’ 5Í; The Sleeping Beauty 15; Pl. 1
Raise the Red Lantern (film) 203
Ralegh, Walter 75
Rambouillet, Marquise de (née Catherine de Vivonne de Savelin) 48–50, 243
rams 286–8, 310, 311, 357
Ramus, Julia and Charlotte 393
Rane, Jean 148
Raphael 258
‘Rapunzel’ 207, 219, 222, 365, 374, 375, 414
‘Rashin Coatie’ 205, 381, 414
Rastafarians, the 105
Rasy, Elisabetta 42
Recueil des plus belles pièces des poètes français (anthology) 285
‘Red Riding Hood’ see ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
Rego, Paula: Nursery Rhymes 310, 311, 417
repuerascentia 92–3
Ribadeneyra, Pedro: Flos sanctorum 338
Richard I, King of England 172–3, 175
Richard III, King of England 344–5
Richardson, Samuel 293–4; Clarissa 293; Pamela 293
riddle books 132, 136, 154
riddles 37, 135–6, 330, 332, 387, 405, 412; the Devil and 134–5; of fools (jesters) 153, 154; and Queen of Sheba 129–33, 131, 134, 135, 319–20
Riemenschneider, Tilman: Saint Mary Magdalen 358, 359
Ripa, Cesare: Iconologia 47, 358
Robin Goodfellow 257
Roghman, Geertruid: Woman Spinning 22
Róheim, Géza 182
Roman de la rose 179
Rome: The Capitol 67–8, 69
Roosevelt, Theodore 305, 306