The Science of Fairy Tales / An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

[20] ?Mélusine,? vol. i. p. 446; Radloff, vol. i. p. 78; Bladé, vol. i. p. 161; Cosquin, vol. ii. p. 10; Cavallius, p. 281; ?Revue des Trad. Pop.? vol. iv. p. 222.

[21] Child, vol. i. p. 319; ?Thomas of Erceldoune,? p. 11 (Cambridge Text); Saxo, ?Gesta Dan.? l. viii.

[22] Journal of Anthrop. Inst. vol. x. p. 282; Shortland, p. 150; ?Kalewala,? rune xvi. l. 293.

[23] Gill, p. 172.

[24] Keightley, p. 261; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 93.

[25] Jahn, p. 72; Keightley, p. 275, quoting Müller, ?Bilder und Sagen aus der Schweiz,? p. 119; Birlinger, ?Volksthümliches,? vol. i. p. 42; Kuhn, p. 82; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 128; vol. iii. p. 54, quoting Müllenhoff, ?Sagen, &c., der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg?; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 173; Wratislaw, p. 40; Wenzig, p. 198; Liebrecht, p. 100, citing ?Results of a Tour in Dardistan?, part iii. p. 3.

[26] Kennedy, p. 106; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 130, quoting Thiele, ?Danmark's Folkesagn.?

[27] Jahn, p. 64; cf. p. 74, where there are two maidens, one of whom had saved the toad when the other desired to kill it. They stand sponsors for the fairy child, and are rewarded with sweepings which turn to gold; also Bartsch, vol. i. p. 50, where a sword is suspended.

[28] Meier, p. 69; Müller, p. 140; ?N. and Q.,? 7th ser. vol. v. p. 501.

[29] Pitré, vol. v. p. 23. The story in its present form does not say that the human food enabled the lady to return from Fairyland, but only that it saved her life. Probably, however, an earlier version may have shown the incident in a more primitive form.

[30] Bent, p. 46.

[31] Keightley, p. 388, citing Stewart; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 50 et seq., quoting Müllenhoff and Thiele; Grohmann, p. 145; see also Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 51.

[32] Poestion, p. 119.

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