The Science of Fairy Tales / An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

[209] Compare the assistance rendered by the birds to Tini-rau, suprà, p. 286. The Eskimo hero is conveyed to his wife on a salmon's tail (Rink, p. 145). Where is the Buddhist pedigree of this incident, or the evidence of Buddhist influence which produced it?

[210] Sastri, p. 80; Cosquin, vol. ii. pp. 19, 18; Ralston, ?Tibetan Tales,? p. 72; ?F. L. Journal,? vol. ii. p. 9; Vernaleken, p. 280.

[211] ?F. L. Journal,? vol. vii. p. 318; Pitré, vol. iv. pp. 391, 410. A variant given by Prof. De Gubernatis is nearly allied to the Cinderella group (?Novelline,? p. 29); Brett, p. 176.

[212] Basset, p. 161, quoting Bresnier, ?Cours de langue Arabe.? In a Maya story given by Dr. Brinton, the husband prevents his wife's transformation in a different way?namely, by throwing salt (?F. L. Journal,? vol. i. p. 251).

[213] ?Journ. Ethnol. Soc.? N. S., vol. ii. p. 26; Giles, passim; Brauns, p. 388.

[214] ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. v. p. 94.

[215] Map, Dist. ii. c. 11.

[216] Map, Dist. ii. c. 12.

[217] ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. iv. p. 201. Nothing turns on the actual names in these stories; they have been evidently much corrupted,?probably past all recognition.

[218] Ibid. p. 189; vol. v. pp. 59, 66; vol. vi. p. 196.

[219] Pliny l. xvi. c. 95; Thorpe, vol. ii. pp. 275, 277; Stephens, p. 248, citing the ?Barzas Breiz.?

[220] The above paragraphs had scarcely been written when the London papers (June 1890) reprinted extracts from a letter in the Vossische Zeitung relating the adventures of Dr. Bayol, the Governor of Kotenon, who was recently imprisoned by the bloodthirsty King of Dahomey. The king was too suspicious to sign the letter written in his name to the President of the French Republic. In all probability he was unwilling to let the President have his sign manual, for of course M. Carnot would have no hesitation in bewitching him by its means.

[221] Keightley, p. 121, quoting from Thiele; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 155.

[222] Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales (Public Record Comm., 1841) pp. 44, 252. (The Dimetian code was the one in force at Myddfai; but that of Gwynedd was similar in this respect.) Farrer, p. 256.

[223] Campbell, vol. iii. p. 403; Mac Innes, p. 211; Wratislaw, p. 314. Cf. a similar story told by a peasant to Dr. Krauss' mother no longer ago than 1888, as having recently happened at Mrkopolje: he ?knew the parties!? (Krauss, ?Volksgl.? p. 107).