Watership Down: The missing index

A
A Woman Young and Old, 34
Acorn (rabbit of Sandleford), 24
Aeschylus, 3
Agamemnom, 3
All's Well That Ends Well, 614
American Folk Song, 477
Ash (rabbit), first mention, 205
Auden, W.H., 139, 197
Austen, Jane, 603
Avens (rabbit of Efrafa), 407

B
badger (lendri), 39–42
Bartsia (Efrafan rabbit), 447
beanfield, 57–88
behaviour see rabbit behaviour
Belt (warren), 615
Betony, first mention of, 107
Big Water see Kehaar
Bigwig (rabbit of Sandleford)
  digging, reluctance to, 237–238
  fight, 26–27, 56, 457, 581–583
  introduced, 13
  joining Efrafa, 404
  left Owsla, 18
  name in Lapine (Thlayli), 13
  snare, caught in, 144–148
  strength, 161
  swimming, 46–47
  wants family, 256
bird, plan (see also Kehaar), 214
Black Rabbit of Inlé, 180, 351, 504, 615–616
  see also stories
Blackavar (rabbit of Efrafa), 308 (mention), 412, 497 (history)
Blackberry (rabbit of Sandleford)
  introduced (unnamed, with black-tipped ears), 5
  dog chase, 579–581
  named, 17
  plan to cross Enbourne, 48–50
  wits, 161
blackbird song, 43
Blake, William, 159
Bluebell (rabbit of Sandleford)
  introduced, with Captain Holly, 185
  joker, 255, 333, 434, 454
  recovery, 212
  story, 218, 581
  vision, 611–612
bobstones (game), 356
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 39
Boxwood (rabbit of Nurhanger Farm), 264
bridge, 383–385
Browning, Robert, 52, 348
Buckthorn (rabbit of Sandleford)
  bitten by rats, 160, 170
  fight, 26–27
  introduced, 24
Bugloss (rabbit of of Efrafa), 310, 401
Bunyan, John, 59
burnet leaf, 20
Butterbur (rabbit), first mention, 205

C
Campbell, Joseph, 293
Campion (rabbit of Efrafa), 306, 505–509 (mission)
captains see individual rabbits
car see hrududu
Caroll, Lewis, 614
carrots, 112 (flayrah) 112, 113
cat
  about, 277
  of Nuthanger Farm see Tab
  eating of, Bluebell's joke. 274
  sounds like, 178
Celandine (rabbit), first mention and death, 204
Charlock (rabbit of Efrafa), 401
Chervil (rabbit of Efrafa), 400
Chief Rabbit
  Cowslip's Warren, lack of, 99–100
  Sandleford, of
    Captain Holly relied on, 183
    introduced, 14
    name in Lapine (Threarah), 13
    reluctance to leave Sandleford, 15–6, 194–195, 196–198
    response to myxomatosis in Sandleford, 14
  Watership Down, of (Hazel-rah), 76
Child Ballad No. 119, 257
chin-glands, 217
Clausewitz, 394
clematis, 603
Clover (doe, of Nuthanger Farm)
  description, 265
  introduced, 264
  ready to be a mother, 345, 530
Company Prospectus of the South Sea Bubble, 339
Congreve, 211
counting, rabbit concept of, 5, 491
Cosi fan tutte, 123
Council (of Efrafa), 304
corncrake, 374
cowslip (flower), 6
Cowslip
  evasive/pretending not to hear, 114–115, 120, 147, 149–150
  first mention of, 82
  introducing himself, 86
  laughter, 106
  meeting Captain Holly, 208
  rejection of stories, 133–134
  Warren, description of, 95–96, 117, 195
Cottington's Clump, 68
creation, rabbit myth, 34–38
Crixa, 404
Crusader Castles, 547
crow, 53 (`Not-hawk'), 55–56 (attack)

D
Dame Hickory, 493
Dandelion
  fight, 27
  introduced, 17
  speed, 30, 162, 577–581
  stories, see stories
De Gustibus, 52
de la Mare, Walter, first pages, 537
de Ponte, Lorenzo, 123
digging see rabbit behaviour
Doctor Adams, 593–599
doe
  admiration (Nildro-hain), 105
  thoughts about, 258
  mating, 414, 499, 501
  need for, 174, 244–245
  in wood, 47
  Sandleford Owsla opinion of, 41–42
dog of Nuthanger Farm, 262, 267, 283, 285, 562–565, 577–581, 589, 594–596
`Dogs aren't dangerous!', 589
dog's mercury, 18
Dostoevsky, 197
dragonfly, 383
duck, flying, 233

E
Earl of Chesterfield, the, 105
Efrafa
   accent, 500
   described and organisation, 304, 325, 329, 331, 397, 407–409, 414, 435, 503–504, 538, 547–548
   introduced as warren on other side of iron road and river, 251, 269
   marks, 303
   punishments, 308
   plan for, 253, 325, 330–333, 424–430, 434, 451, 452–453
El-ahrairah
  boasting, 35
  exclamation, as, 92
  first mention of, 30–31
  pronounciation, 30
  stones mystery (Cowslip's Warren), 102–103
  stories, see stories
  wives, 35
embleer (stinking, smell of fox), defined, 46
elil (enemies), 5 214, 535
Enbourne (river), 40, 42, 44–45, 51–52
Euthyphro, 527
exclamations see rabbit sayings

F
farm see Nuthanger Farm
farmer, shooting, 60-61
Fedden, Robin, 547
Fern Hill, 590
fight
  Captain Groundsel and Blackavar, 549
  Captain Holly escaping Sandleford (Bluebell, Captain Holly, Cowslip, Pimpernel, rabbits from Cowslips' warren), 208–9
  cats (Bigwig, Dandelion), 276
  crow (Bigwig), 56
  escape from Efrafa (Bigwig, Bartsia, Blackavar, guard), 457–458
  rats (Bigwig, Buckthorn, Silver), 160–161
  Sandleford, departing (Captain Holly, Bigwig, Buckthorn, Dandelion), 26–27
  Woundwort, Bigwig, others, 574–576, 581–583
Fiorin (rabbit of Efrafa, mentioned), 396
fish, 334
Fiver (rabbit of Sandleford)
  dream about water, 11–12
  fear and flight, 136–137
  Fiver-rah!, 167
  introduced, 5
  name in Lapine (Hrairoo), 5
  requirements for Watership Down, 45
  visions and premonitions, 7–8, 12, 16, 69, 90, 99, 116–118, 134–138, 151–154, 161, 198, 272, 294–296, 322, 325, 327, 432, 442, 554–555, 569, 572, 583 (via Bigwig), 586–588, 605
flayrah (appetizing food), 109 (first mentioned), 112 (defined)
Four Postures of Death, 132
fox, 100, 367–370 (described), 439–440, 499 (fox country), 502–503
Frith (God, also the sun)
  bargain, 253
  bestowing El-ahrairah `Prince with a Thousand Enemies', 35
  blessing El-ahrairah's bottom, 37–38
  faith in, 211, 314, 316
  introduced, 34, 135–136 (Silverweed's poem)
  presents to the animals, 35–38
  promise to El-ahrairah, 38, 211
  warning El-ahrairah, 35

G
General Woundwort see Woundwort
ghosts (rabbit), 588
Graves, Robert, 597
Greame, Kenneth, 377
Groundsel (rabbit of Efrafa), 402
Gulls, Black-headed, about, 241

H
Hamlet, 21
Hardy, Thomas, 169
harebell, 603
Harris. Joel Chandler, 438
Harva, Uno, 293
Hawkbit, 23, 66–67 (wants to return to Sandleford)
Haystack (doe, of Nuthanger Farm), 264
Hazel (rabbit of Sandleford)
  death, 617
  dream, 109, 139–140
  introduced, 4
  leadership, 41, 47, 71–72, 76, 96, 161, 194, 240, 246, 260–261, 263, 270, 284, 340 (summary), 343, 346, 373, 375, 481, 487, 494, 498, 501, 506, 530, 535, 545, 552–553, 556, 560
  shot and in pain, 289, 298, 319
  spirit of mischief, 258
  with Lucy (child) and car trip, 592–596, 601–602
Hazel-rah, first mentions, 75–76
hedgehog
  name in Lapine (yona), 64
  Yona (story), 125, 130
Henry V, 327
Hlao (any small concavity in the grass where moisture may collect, name of Pipkin in Lapine), 22
Hlao-roo, diminutive form of Pipkin's name, 108
hlessi, rabbits living in the open without a hole, wanderer, scratcher, vagabond (pl: hlessil), 169, 207, 322, 496
high, lonely place with dry soil (Watership Down), 45
holes on Watership Down, 168–170
Holly (rabbit of Sandleford)
  cleaning and recovery, 211–215
  details, 183–184
  fight, 26–27
  first mention, 17
  found injured, 181–182
  introduced, 26
  Keehar, 257
  leader of embassy, 255
  loyalty, 340
  speech about evil and men, 199
homba (fox)
  see also fox
  first mention, 100
Honeycomb hall see Watership Down
hrair (a lot), 5, 193, 254
Hrairoo Little Thousand (name of Fiver in Lapine), defined, 5
hraka (droppings)
  burying (Efrafa), 408
  defined (Owsla lampoon), 56
  passing, 113, 171–172, 199, 212, 450. 455
hrududu (motor vehicle)
   defined, 55
   used, 286, 494, 601–602
Hurt Hawks, 233
hutch, opening, 278
Hyzenthlay (doe, of Efrafa)
   encountered, 418
   first mention, 306
   visions and premonitions, 424–425

I
Inlé (moon, also otherworld), mention, 205, 325
iron road see railway

J
Jeffers, Robinson, 233
Johnsom, Dr, 407
Jourdan, General, 367
Julius Caesar, 452, 556

K
Kelfazin, marshes see stories
Kehaar see also gulls
  Big Water (Peeg Vater), 243, 249, 334–335, 387, 390, 485, 495–496
  correcting Holly, 257
  doe reconniaissance plan, 245, 257, 485
  doe reconniaissance agreement, 247
  eating fish, 334
  Efrafan suspicion of, 440–441, 448
  fouling nest, 250
  flight, 248
  introduced, 234
  quarrel with kestrel, 258
  stones (shot-gun pellets), 321
  `Piss off!', 239
  talking difficulties, 253
kestrel, 175–6, 189–191, 217, 258, 341
Keyes, Sidney, 132
Kingcup (rabbit), first mentioned (missing, called by Strawberry), 103–104
Kingsclere, 176

L
Labernum (Poison-tree, name of rabbit in Cowslip's Warren) see Shape of Laburnum
Lapine, 190, 449
  also see individual terms
lark, announcing morning, 42
Lark Rise to Candleford, 577
laughter, unknown to most rabbits, 106
Laurel (doe, of Nuthanger Farm), 264
language and lingua franca of hedgerow and woodland, 190
Le Morte d'Arthur, 71
lendri (badger), first mention, 40
Letters to the Sun, 105
Light, 215–216
litters, 530
Lockley, R.M., 28, 77, 211, 614
Love for Love, 211
Lucy (of Nuthanger Farm), 590–599

M
Malory, 71
Mallow (rabbit of Efrafa), 401
map, Bigwigs's Flight to the Test, 464
de la Mare, Walter, preface, 316, 493
Marjoram (rabbit of Efrafa), 402
men
  destruction of Sandlesford warren, 207–209
  horse, on, 176
  farming the land, 341, 496
  of Nuthanger Farm, 286, 577
  sign, 10
  smell, 109, 119, 147, 262, 269, 486
  with gun, 100, 207
magpie, 156
mangels, 268
martins, 44
Memoires Militaires, 367
mole, mentioned, 215
Moneywort (rabbit of Efrafa), 402
moonlight (see also fu Inlé), 215–217
moorhen, 380
mouse, 190–193, 196, 213–214, 217, 527–528, 543
movement, rabbit, 31–32
Musk Hall Song, 431
myths see also stories
  belief in, 133, 211
  Black Rabbit of Inlé, 180, 210
  creation, 34–38
  El-ahrairah, Shape (Cowslip's Warren), 102–103, 105
myxomatosis
  in Efrafa, 304
  in Sandleford, 14
  in story, 361–362

N
Napolean, 537
Near Hind Mark
   Bigwig joining, 406
   first mention, 394
Nelthilta (doe, of Efrafa), 413, 454–456 (arrest and aftermath)
Newtown Common, 65
nightingale song, 275
Nightshade (rabbit), first mention, 200
Nildro-Hain (Song of the Blackbird, name of doe in Cowslip's Warren)
  admired, 105
  introduced, doe of Strawberry, 100
  remembered, 244
noise, 170–171, 189
Northanger Abbey, 603
Nose-in-the-Air (rabbit), first mention, 205
notice board of development of Sandleford, 10, 17
Nuthanger Farm
    children and family, 590–596
    description, 261–262
    does, 250, 264

O
On War, 394
Orchis (rabbit of Efrafa), 399
outskirter (rank-and-file ordinary rabbit), defined, 4
owl, 65–66, 73, 141
Owsla (strong or clever rabbits surrounding the Chief Rabbit)
  defined, 6–7
  lampoon, 56
  story, Rabscuttle, 125
  Sandleford survivors see Bigwig, Captain Holly, Silver
  teaching, 64 (hrududil), 145–146 (snare)
Owslafa (of Efrafa), 308, 479

P
Peeg Vater see Kehaar
peewit, 548
poetry (Cowslip's Warren), 134–136
Polo, Marco, 381
Piozzi, Signor, 299
Pimpernel (rabbit), 204, 209 (death)
Pine-needles (rabbit), first mention, 205
Pipkin (rabbit of Sandleford)
  confused, 322
  crossing Enbourne, 49–50, 58
  doe mission plan, 259–260
  injury, 32, 40, 46
  introduced to, 22
  name in Lapine (Hlao), 22
  screaming, 54
`Piss off!', 239
Plato, 527
Prospice, 348
Proverbs of Uncle Remus, 438
Portway and surroundings, 342
primroses, 617
Prince with a Thousand Enemies, 38 (Frith bestows El-ahrairah), 126 (called by Prince Rainbow)
Prince Rainbow see stories
Psalm 59, 510

R
rabbit behaviour
  ability to withstand disaster, 211
  absorbtion of rabbits by doe, 254
  breeding, 313, 606
  delight (and testing), 328
  digging and scrapes, 81–82, 147–148, 172–175, 177, 187–189, 499–501, 510–511, 530, 547–554, 558–559, 609
  carrying food, 114–115, 173
  cleaning wounds, 58, 72, 213
  cooperation with other animals, 213–215
  conventions and formalities, 98–99
  counting, rabbit concept of, 5
  dancing (Cowslip's Warren), 94
  disgust, 64, 250
  droppings see hraka
  dying 417, 569
  eating young, 531
  evacuating warren, 198
  excretion, 250
  fear and flight (see also tharn), 136–137
  feeding, 6, 171, 502
  fertility, 300
  fighting over doe, 345
  fools, teaching about, 90
  force, use of, 138, 141 (discussed)
  formal gestures (usual lack of), 94
  fox encounters, 367
  hearing, 377
  insect catching, 246
  inspecting holes, 167–168
  laughter, unknown to most rabbits, 106
  lifespan, 614
  melancholy, unknown to most rabbits, 132
  mischief, 339
  movement, 31–33, 164
  overcrowding, 253
  reconnaissance, 246
  senses, underground, 96
  screaming, 5
  sleeping places, 170
  smelling, 88
  sniffing during greeting, 83–84, 94
  stamping, 82, 109–110, 532
  stars, recognition, 275
  stories, 212
  strength, 211
  success, 280
  swimming, 42
  unknown, response to, 29
  testing, 328
  thunder, 432
  time, rabbit concept of, 21, 59, 241 (owl-time)
  winter, 604–605
  without experience of wild life, 396
  woodland, in, 28
rabbit feet, 58
rabbit language and sayings
  A rabbit's sneeze on the morning breeze…, 501
  as dry as horse-hair on barbed wire, 531
  Before a duck can dive, 335
  Blue-tit's chatter, 186
  By Frith and the Black Rabbit, 451
  By Frith in the leaves, 608
  By the King's Lettuce!, 141
  Come where the grass is greener…, 333
  Does might grow wings and fly, 447
  Embleer Frith, 461
  Fits like a bee in a foxglove, 154
  For El-ahrairah to cry, 151
  Frith above!, 58
  [O] Frith and Inlé, 50, 370
  Frith forbid!, 155
  Frith help me/you, 492, 579
  [The Lord] Frith himself will be fighting for us, 572
  Frith in a fog!, 72
  Frith in a pond!, 196
  Frith [only] knows…, 452, 533
  Frith knows what [besides], 172, 538
  Frith on a bridge!, 415
  Frith up a tree!, 335
    Frithrah! r(Lord God!), 19
  Frith sees you!, 466
  fu Inlé (after moonrise), 20, 19, 346, 421, 492, 529
  [O] Great Frith!, 331, 502
  Great golden Frith, 199
  Hills or Inlé, 150
  `Hoi, Hoi u embleer Hrair, M' saigon ulé hraka vair' (`Hoi, Hoi, the stinking Thousand, We meet them even when we stop to pass our droppings', Owsla lampoon), 56, 179
  hraka one end, jokes the other, 209
  If you were a horse the ceiling would fall down, 110
  In the warren, more stories than passages, 121
  [But] it's Inlé/, not Efrafa, that I will go to from here, 582
  like a tom-tit rounding up a bunch of moulting jackdaws, 600
  long-grass rumours, 529
  marli tharn, (stupified doe), 433
  May Frith blast you…, 466
  My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today, 149
  my wings and beak, 608
  O embleer Frith! (Fiver's impiety, O stinking God!), 151
  O fly away, great bird so white, and don't come back until tonight, 449
  O [great] Frith, 166, 502
  O Frith on the hills!, 166–167
  ni-Frith (noon), 12, 46, 82, 200, 208, 242, 302, 342, 421, 503, 542, 546, 554, 556, 598
  One cloud feels lonely, 233
  Our children's children will hear a good story, 479
  pfeffa-rah (King of cats), 343
  pressing his chin glands, 502
  rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound, 499
  Secrets go faster than moles underground, 447
  Silfray hraka, u embleer rah (Dine well on shit, stenchmaster), 582
  Till acorns grow on thistles, 195
  The burrow's snug, the hath been dug…, 609
  What in Frith's name happens now?, 584
railway, 251, 313
Ragwort (of Efrafa), 550
rat
   attack, 160–161
   puzzled, 578–579
   spotting, 261
Renault, Mary, 268
river Enbourne see Enbourne
river Test, 251, 469–473, 477–47 , 480
road, crossing, 62–63
robin, 604
Robin Hood (Child Ballad No. 119), 257
rope, 391–393
-roo, little (name suffix), defined, 5
rosehips, 604

S
sainfoin, 162–3
Sainfoin (rabbit of Efrafa), mentioned, 399
sandpipers, 442
Sandleford (warren)
  design and development, 10, 571
  destruction (Captain Holly's recount), 199–206
  first mention of, 7
  myxomatosis in, 14
  plan to leave, 19
 Sayn lay narn, marli? (`Is grounsel nice, mother?', muttered by Pipkin in sleep), 109
sayings see rabbit sayings
Scabius (rabbit), first mention and death, 202
Shakespeare, 21, 327, 452, 558, 614
Shape of Laburnum, 102–103, 105, 133
silf (outside), first mention of, 140
silflay (go above ground to feed), first mention of, 106
Silfray hraka, u embleer rah (Enjoy eating shit, stenchmaster), 582
Silver (rabbit of Sandleford), 25
Silverweed (rabbit poet in Cowslip's Warren), 134–136, 322
snake, 65
snare, 119, 144–148
[Old] Snowdrop (of Efrafa), 398, 538
Speedwell, 24
Spider, Spider, on the bus, 591
Starveall (lonely barn), 160
stoats, 542
stones see Shape of Laburnum
stories
  see also myths
  bargain (absorbing rabbits), 254
  Captain Holly's tale, telling, 212
  Dandelion telling, 33, 122, 132, 562
  El-ahrairah and the pike, 31
  El-ahrairah and the fox (Blueberry to does, under attack from Woundwort), 581–582
  help from other animals, mentioned, 215
  Hawock (phesant), 223
  Hufsa (spy rabbit), 219
  Kelfazin, marshes, 123
  King Darzin, 124
  Loosestrife, 364
  Noah's Ark, 272
  Prince Rainbow, 123
  The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé, 348, 504
  The Story of the Blessing of El-ahrairah, 34–38
  The Story of the King's Lettuce
    as expression, 141
    at Efrafa, 310
    mentioned in Cowslip's Warren, 102–103
    told, 123–131
  The Story of Rowsby Wood and the Fairy Wogdog, 512, 542
  The Story of the Trial of El-ahrairah, 218–232
  Rabscuttle, Captain of Owsla, first mentioned, 125
  Woundwort Dismayed (joke), 512
  Vilthuril's story, 611
  Yona the hedgehog, 125, 130, 223
Strawberry (of Cowslip's warren)
   Hazel admires, 110
   introduced, 100
   leaves Cowslip's Warren, 155–156
   proud to be part of embassy (not coward), 255
   struggles, 162
   tells stones (Shape of Laburnum) mystery, 101–103
Stubbs, George (painter of horses), 215
summer, 341
swedes, 268
swearing
   bloody owls, 387
   Dam' rabbits, 486
   for Frith's sake, 91
   [O] embleer Frith, 151, 461
   Piss off!, 239
   Silfray hraka, u embleer rah (Dine well on shit, stenchmaster), 582
swimming, 42, 46–47, 485, 487–488

T
Tab (cat of Nuthanger Farm) 266, 271, 276, 282–283, 565, 571 , 591–592
Tennyson, 93
The Acts of the Apostles, 44
The Anabasis, 17
The Ascent of F.6, 197
The Brothers Karamazov, 197
The Hero with a Thousand Facts, 293
The King Must Die, 268
The Lotus Eaters, 93
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 159
The Pilgrim 316
The Pilgrim's Progress, 59
The Private Life of the Rabbit, 28, 77
Thethuthinnang (Efrafan doe), 417
The Wind in the Willows, 377
The Witness, 139
The World, 11
tharn (paralysis caused by fear and exhaustion), 32, 164–5, 456, 489
Thethuthinnang (doe, of Efrafa), 417
Thistle (of Efrafa), 543
Thlayli, (Furhead, name of Bigwig in Lapine), defined, 13
Thrayonlosa (injured doe), 492, 493
Threarah (Lord Rowan Tree, name of Chief Rabbit of Sandleford in Lapine), defined, 13, 612 (Threar, of Bluebell)
  see also Chief Rabbit
Through the Looking Glass, 614
Thomas, Dylan, 590
Thompson, Flora, 577
Thousand, dog member of, 42
Thrale, Ceceilia, 299
thunder, 466
time, rabbit concept of, 21, 59
Toadflax (rabbit of Sandleford), 6, 206 (death and speech about destruction of warren and men)
train see railway
trees in November, like (Pipkin, Cowslip Warren rabbits), 107
tormentil, 603
Two Fusiliers, 597

U
U Hrair, The Thousand ('All the enemies' in Lapine), defined, 5
unknown, rabbit behaviour is reponse to, 29

V
Vaughan, Henry, 11
Vervain (rabbit of Efrafa), 455
Vilthuril (doe, of Efrafa), 499

W
warren, description of old warren, 88
water-hawk, 385
water-rabbit, idea, 392
Watership Down
  description, 68, 74, 159–160, 166, 171
  Fiver's requirements for, 45, 68, 163
  Honeycomb hall (see also rabbit behaviour, digging), 171, 187–189, 192, 195–196, 239, 244
Who's in the Next Room?, 169
white blindness see myxomatosis
Wide Patrol, 305, 325, 330, 344, 398–400, 497, 499, 509
Willow (rabbit), first mention, 198
woods, 28–33
Woundwort (Chief Rabbit of Efrafa)
   described, 308, 537
   disappearance, 607, 615–616
   fear, 585
   first mentions, 304, 394, 398
   not lke a rabbit, 607
   offer to Bigwig, 581–582
   meeting with Hazel (lame rabbit), 544–546

X
Xenophon, 17

Y
Yeats, W.B., 34
yellow-hammer, 529, 543
yona (hedgehog), 64
Yona the hedgehog (story), 125, 130

Z
zorn (finished or destroyed),
  defined, 180
  used, 181