Finding ourselves older. The woman who became a fox (Siberia) ; Mother Mansrot (Germany) ; Kate Dalrymple (Scotland) ; The magic forest (Croatia) ; Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross (England) ; The giantess's burden (Wales) ; My grandmother's cottage (Wales) ; Tending Eden (England) ; Baubo (Greece) ; Old woman song (England)
Kissing the witch. The Nixy (England) ; There was an old woman toss'd up in a basket (England) ; Kissing the hag (Ireland) ; Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing (England) ; Morgan (England and Wales) ; The old woman and her cat (England) ; The true history of Little Golden Hood (England)
Gifts for the young. The goose girl at the well (Germany) ; La Befana (Italy) ; Vasilisa the Fair (Russia) ; The little old lady of Kidwelly (Wales) ; Habetrot and the spinning sisters (England) ; Spinning wheel song (Isle of Man) ; Fair, brown, and trembling (Ireland) ; Mother Holle (Germany) ; Old Mother Goose (England) ; The Groac'h of the well (Brittany)
The earth itself. Beira, Queen of Winter (Scotland) ; Berrey Dhone (Isle of Man) ; The bush grandmother (Germany) ; Grandmother Snow (Siberia) ; The Carlin of Beinn Bhreac (Scotland) ; The green man of No Man's Land (Welsh Gypsy) ; What are old women made of? (England) ; The witch of Beinn a' Glò (Scotland)
Don't mess with old women. The furies (Greece) ; Watching for the milk-stealer (England) ; The farmer's curst wife (England) ; Elli (Norse) ; Big Kennedy and the Glaistig (Scotland) ; Hop Tu Naa (Isle of Man) ; Cundrie: the loathly lady (Europe) ; The water horse of Varkasaig (Scotland) ; Sgàthach (Scotland)
Seeing deeply. The dream makes (Scotland) ; Biddy Early (Ireland) ; The fool and the wise woman (England) ; The pythia (Greece) ; There was an old woman lived under the hill (England) ; The sleeping beauty in the wood (France)
Wisdom for the world. The spinners of blessings (Irish traveller) ; Conwenna (England) ; An' Katty and the well-keepers (England) ; The buried moon (England) ; The finwife (Orkney) ; The Hedley kow (England)
Death and rebirth. The bird Yustritsa (Russia) ; The little old woman with five cows (Siberia) ; The Sheela Na Gig (Great Britain and Ireland) ; Godmother Death (Moravia) ; Harbingers of death (Great Britain and Ireland) ; Old bone mother (Siberia)
