Comparative Studies in Nursery RhymesEckenstein, Lina
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Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes
Eckenstein, Lina
Comparative literature; Nursery rhymes -- Bibliography; Nursery rhymes -- History and criticism
Robert Rowley rolled, 141
Robin and Richard were two pretty men, 183
Robin-a-Bobbin bent his bow, 183
Robin-the-Bobbin, the big-headed hen, 183
Roses are red, diddle, diddle, 33
Rowley, rowley, rattlebags, 141
S
Sacrificial hunting, 171 ff.
Sally Waters (_a game_), 62, 67 ff., 216
Salt, significance of, 85
Seven years' time reckoning, 51, 69 ff.
Si un cordonnier cordant (_French rhyme_), 142
Sing a song of sixpence, 190
Sing hey diddle diddle, 35
Sommervögele flueg aus (_German rhyme_), 96
Sprinkling the pan (_a ceremonial act_), 71
Stout (_a traditional name_), 55
Sul (_a divinity_), 75
T
Tam o' th' Lin and a' his bairns, 53
The birds' lamentation (_a song_), 202
The comic adventures of Mother Hubbard (_a toy-book_), 38 ff.
The courtship of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren (_a toy-book_), 205, 209
The death and burial of Cock Robin (_a toy-book_), 37, 210
The first day of Christmas (_a game_), 135
The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog (_a game_), 37, 116, 138
The king sent his lady (_a game_), 135
The Lady of the Land (_a game_), 78 ff., 216
The Lady of the Mountain (_a game_), 67
The life and death of Jenny Wren (_a toy-book_), 202
The man in the moon drinks claret, 21
The old woman and her pig _or_ kid, 119 ff.
The robin and the wren, 200 ff.
The robin redbreast and the wren, 201
The Robin's Testament (_a song_), 191 ff., 201
The tragic death of A, apple pie (_a toy-book_), 37
The twelve days of Christmas (_a game_), 134 ff.
The two grey cats, 54
The wife who expects to have a good name (_a proverb_), 86
The wren she lyes in care's bed (_a song_), 202
The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, 180
The Yule days (_a game_), 135
There lived a puddy in a well (_a song_), 30
There was a bonny blade (_a song_), 25
There was a frog lived in a well (_a song_), 32
There was a little man who woo'd, 24
There was a little man who had a little gun, 25
There was a little old woman, and she lived in a shoe, 41
There was a little woman as I've heard tell, 55
There was a wee wifie (_a song_), 26
There was an old woman tossed in a blanket (_a song_), 25
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, 100
There were two blackbirds, 22
This is the house that Jack built, 117 ff.
This ladyfly I take from the grass, 95
Three blind mice, 28, 29, 90
Tittymouse and Tattymouse (_a cumulative story_), 208
Tom Hickathrift (_a chapbook_), 99
Tommy Linn is a Scotchman born, 52, 215
Toy-books, 3, 36 ff., 202, 204
Twelve huntsmen, with horns and hounds, 139
U
Une femme qui siffle (_French proverb_), 73 n.
V
Voici la maison que Pierre a bâtie (_a French piece_), 123
W
Wallflowers (_a game_), 72 n.
We hunted the wren, 177
We will a' gae sing, boys (_a chant_), 157
We will go to the wood, 174
Wer is dod (_German knell_), 212
What care I how black I be, 28
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