Rose, Ruth 277
Rosmus, Anja 396
Rossini, Gioacchino: La Cenerentola 213–14, 347
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques xiv; ‘La Reine fantasque’ xii
Rubens, Peter Paul: Saint Barbara Fleeing from her Father 343
ruelles 50, 142, 168, 170, 174, 334
‘Rumpelstiltskin’ 134, 172, 179, 201; see also L’Héritier: ‘Ricdin-Ricdon’
Rushdie, Salman 144, 194; Haroun and the Sea of Stories 417; The Satanic Verses 412
Ruskin, John: ‘The King of the Golden River’ 411
S
Sade, Marquis de 195
Sage, Lorna 309
Samber, Robert 165, 280
Samson 129, 372
Samuel 83
Sand, George 235
Scarron, Paul 55, 281
Schefold, Reimar 208
Schongauer, Martin 359; Wild Woman 353, 359
Schwarz-Bart, Simone 21, 416; Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle 21
Scudéry, Madeleine de 29, 50, 168, 170, 176; Clélie 168; Le Grand Cyrus 168
Sedakova, Olga: Old Women’ 27
Sendak, Maurice 207
Sévigné, Madame de 18, 55, 76
Seyrig, Delphine 319, 351
Shakespeare, William 44, 194; The Comedy of Errors 360; Hamlet 390; Kingjohn 223; King Lear 153, 154, 228, 286–7, 351, 388–90, 391, 404; Macbeth 129; The Merchant of Venice 350; A Midsummer Night’s Dream 145, 197, 257, 273, 274 315; Pericles 201, 326, 331–2, 351, 371, 389; Romeo and Juliet 147; Titus Andronicus 398; Twelfth Night 23, 199; The Winter’s Tale 127, 201
Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan 260
Sheba, Queen of 95, 96–7, 96, 109, 110, 118, 125, 126, 131, 137; and Christianity 98–9, 100–2, 104–9; deformed feet of xx, 112–13, 115–17, 118, 118, 122, 123, 125; and Islam 107, 111, 112, 116, 117; riddles of 129–33, 134, 135, 319–20; and the Sibyls 98, 101, 107, 116–22; Pls.6, 7, 8, 9
‘She-Bear, The’ see Basile: L’Orsa
Sherman, Cindy 270
shoes 203, 361–2, 386
Sibelius, Jean 17
Sibyl (Sibilla) 15, 68, 97, 140, 141; Christianity and 4, 9–10, 70–4, 76, 98; Cimmerian 72; Cumaean (at Norcia) 2, 10, 31, 56, 67–70, 72, 75–6, 131; Delphic 67, 72, 75; Erythraean 70, 71, 72, 72; Hellespontine 72, 73, 74, 75, 98, 107, 119, 120, 121; and Queen of Sheba 98, 101, 107, 116–21; Phrygian 119; Persian 66; Samian 72, 73; Tiburtine 69, 70, 72, 119; Pl.4; see also Norcia
Siena Cathedral 9, 70, 73
silence xxi; of daughters and heroines 387–96, 404–6, 407; of princesses 149, 150; virtue of 27–33, 44, 394
Silverman, Kaja 190
‘Silver Nose’ see Calvino: ‘Il naso d’argento’
Simeon 85, 140, 141
Simmons, Samuel 158
Simon Magus 9
Singing Ringing Tree, The (film) 297
sirens 7, 113, 114–15, 121, 399–402, 400, 403, 404, 406, 407–8, 408; see also mermaids
‘Sleeping Beauty, The’ xii, xvi, xx, 15, 148, 183, 207, 219, 220–2, 269, 318
Slowacki, Juliusz: Mazeppa 410
‘Snow White’ xviii, 201, 207, 209, 210–11, 214, 215, 219, 220, 222, 224, 365, 369, 414
Sodom 328–9
Solomon, King 64, 97, 98, 100, 101, 103, 106, 107, 108–9, 109, 111, 112, 118, 129–31, 131, 132–3, 134, 135, 376; Pl. 6
Somaize, Baudeau de: ‘La Mort de Lustucru …’ 29
Sophocles: Oedipus trilogy 330, 331
Soriano, Marc 324
Southey, Robert: ‘Goldilocks’ 157
spectacles (eye-glasses) 87, 157–8, 159
Speculum humanae salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) 83, 108, 137
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene 123
Sphinx, the 330
Spielberg, Steven 417
spinning 22–3, 22, 37, 110, 127–8, 137; see also distaffs
Spinola Hours 367, 368; Pl. 16
‘Starlight’ see Murat: ‘Etoilette’
Steen, Jan: Celebrating the Birth 33, 37; David Receiving Homage 158, 159; The Sick Lady 59–60, 61; Pl.3
Stefani, Francesco 297
Steiff, Richard 306
stepmothers 201, 207, 211, 212, 213, 214, 218–19, 222, 223, 225, 227, 237, 263; see also mothers-in-law
Stevens, Wallace xvi, 199
Stevenson, William: Gammer Gurton’s Needle 13
storks 51–3, 54, 54, 55, 58–9, 61–5, 61, 64, 65, 113, 231
Stoss, Veit 119
Straparola, Giovan Francesco (‘the Babbler’) 17, 36, 209; Le piacevoli notti (The Pleasant Nights) 17, 135–6, 226, 274, 326
Strozzi, Bernardo 46, 46, 47
‘Subtle Princess, The’ see L’Héritier, Marie-Jeanne: ‘L’Adroite Princesse’
Suleiman, Yachya Ben 132
Surrealists 296, 310, 312, 327, 382–6, 383
Swales, Peter 350
Swift, Jonathan 235; Gulliver’s Travels 158, 235–6
Symbolists 296, 397
Syrlin, Jörg: Ulm Cathedral carvings 119–20
T
Taggart, James 208–9, 354
Tannhäuser 9; Tannhäuser Ballad 3
Tarquín, King of Rome (‘the Proud’) 3, 67
‘Tattercoats’ 210
teddy bears 305–6
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair 219
Thesmophoria (rituals) 239
Thomas, Keith 280, 307
Thomas of Celano 70
Thompson, Caroline 277
Thompson, Stith xviii
‘Three Bears, The’ 157; see ‘Goldilocks’
‘Three Heads in a Well’ 12, 13, 378
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War 144
Ticquet, Angélique 286, 293
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista: Time Defacing Beauty 366; Vice and Virtue 366
Tillman, Lynne: The Trouble with Beauty 352
Tir-na-nog, kingdom of 8
Tocqueville, Alexis, Comte de 413
‘Tom Thumb’ xii, 86, 201, 412, 417
Trémeur, Saint 261, 263
Triphine, Saint 261, 262, 263
Trithenius, Johannes: Laudibus sanctissimae matris Anna 88–9
Trollope, Anthony: Lady Anna 298
Troyansky, David: Old Age in the Old Regime 228–9
Tussaud, Mme 221
U
Ulm, Germany 118; Cathedral 119–20
Uncumber, Saint 360–1, 360
Underwood, William Lyman: Wild Brother 304, 304–5
Updike, John xiv
V
Valentine and Orson 300, 301
Valerius Maximus 332
Valéry, Paul 403–4
Vaugelas, Claude Favre de 50, 170
veillées 20, 21–2, 237
Veldener, John: Boec van der Houte 120
Venette, Nicolas: The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Revealed 345–6
Venus (goddess) 9, 218, 223–4, 273, 406
Vergil, Polydore: compendium on inventions 59
Vergoose, Mrs 155
Vertumnus 148; (Jan van Kessell) Pl.11
Viehmann, Dorothea 189, 190–3
Villeneuve, Mme de (Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon) 292, 377; ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 219, 232, 234–5, 277, 290, 299; Les Contes marins ou la jeune Américaine 290
Villiers, Abbe de 189
Virgil 72, 169; Aeneid 3, 67, 323, 363; Eclogues 69
Virgil Solis: Saint Helena 108
Virgin Mary see Mary, Virgin
Virgo (sign of the Zodiac) 374, 376–7, 376, 379–80; Pls. 15, 16
Vitalis, Orderic 242
Voltaire 144
Voragine, Jacobus de: Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) 83, 99–100, 103, 121, 264
Vostre, Simon: Les présentes heures à l’usaige de Rouan 36, 75, 377, 377
Voyages imaginaires, songes, visions et romans cabalistiques xii
Vries, Simon de:
Persian Sibyl 66
W
Wagner, Richard: Tannhäuser 9
Walcott, Derek: Omeros 390
Walser, Robert: Snow White 417
Warwick, Earls of 344, 345, 414
water: and hair 382, 406, 407; and music 406–7
Watteau, Jean-Antoine: Le Remède 61
Wavre, Jan van 335, 338, 340
Weber, Eugen 263
weddings see marriage
wetnurses 35, 36, 235, 236
Whore of Babylon Pl. 18
‘White Cat, The’ see d’Aulnoy: ‘La Chatte blanche’
widowers 213, 263
widows 213, 227, 228–9, 230, 263
Wierix, Jerome: The Life of the Virgin Mary 87, 95
Wild, Dorothea 20
Wild, Dortchen see Grimm, Dortchen
Wilde, Oscar 290; ‘The Happy Prince’ 20; ‘The Selfish Giant’ 20
Wilde, Speranza 20
Wilgefortis, Saint see Uncumber, Saint
Winnicott, D. W. 307
Winterson, Jeanette 417
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 135
Woolf, Virginia 184
Woolverton, Linda 277, 313, 318
Wright, Minnie 277
Wroth, Mary 335
Wynkyn de Worde 36
Y
Yeats, W. B. 366
Yellow Dwarf, The’ see d’Aulnoy: Le Nain jaune
Yolen, Jane 411
Young, Karl: Drama of the Medieval Church 141
Yourcenar, Marguerite 168
Z
Zhang Yimou: Raise the Red Lantern 203
Zipes, Jack 255; Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment 290
Zurbarán, Francisco 92
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