The Science of Fairy Tales / An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

[84] Grimm, ?Tales,? vol. i. pp. 163, 388; Schleicher, p. 91; Fleury, p. 60; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 176; quoting Asbjörnsen, ?Huldreeventyr,? vol. ii. p. 165. Cf. Sébillot, ?Contes Pop.? vol. ii. p. 78.

[85] Sikes, pp. 58, 59; Howells, p. 138; ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. iv. p. 208, vol. vi. pp. 172, 204; Keightley, p. 436.

[86] Croker, p. 65; ?A Pleasant Treatise of Witches,? p. 62, quoted in Hazlitt, ?Fairy Tales,? p. 372; Sébillot, ?Contes,? vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 157; Campbell, vol. ii. p. 47; ?Revue des Trad. Pop.? vol. iii. p. 162. Cf. a Basque tale given by Webster, where the Devil is tricked into telling his age (Webster, p. 58).

[87] Simrock, p. 419.

[88] Jahn, p. 89; Schleicher, p. 91.

[89] ?Choice Notes,? p. 27; (this seems to have been a common prescription in Wales: see ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. vi, pp. 175, 178; and in the Western Highlands: see Campbell, vol. ii. p. 64.) Brand, vol. ii. p. 335, note; (this seems also to be the case in some parts of Ireland, Lady Wilde, vol. i. p. 70.) Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 157; Kennedy, p. 94; ?Irish Folk Lore,? p. 45.

[90] Beaten?Lay of Marie de France, quoted Keightley, p. 436; Costello, ?Pilgrimage to Auvergne,? vol. ii. p. 294, quoted Keightley, p. 471; Fleury, p. 62, citing Bosquet, ?Normandie Romanesque?; Howells, p. 139; Aubrey, ?Remains,? p. 30; Jahn, pp. 98, 101; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 29; Croker, p. 81. Starved, beaten, &c.?Croker, p. 77. Threatened to be killed?Sébillot, ?Trad. et Super.? vol. i. p. 118; ?Contes,? vol. i. p. 28, vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4.

[91] Grohmann, p. 135; Wratislaw, p. 161; Schleicher, p. 92.

[92] ?Y Brython,? vol. ii. p. 20; Kennedy, p. 90; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 174; Napier, p. 40; Lady Wilde, vol. i. pp. 72, 171; Keightley, p. 393; ?Revue des Trad. Pop.? vol. iii. p. 162; Campbell, vol. ii. pp. 47, 61; Croker, p. 65; Chambers, p. 70; ?F. L. Journal,? vol. i. p. 56; Gregor, pp. 8, 9; Cromek, p. 246.

[93] ?Daily Telegraph,? 19 May 1884; Gregor, p. 61; Lady Wilde, vol. i. pp. 38, 173; ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. vi. p. 209, vol. v. p. 72.

[94] ?Cambrian Quarterly,? vol. ii. p. 86, quoted, Sikes, p. 59; ?Y Cymmrodor,? vol. iv. p. 208, vol. vi. pp. 172, 203. Mr. Sikes refers to a case in which the child was bathed in a solution of foxglove as having actually occurred in Carnarvonshire in 1857, but he gives no authority.

[95] Quoted in Southey, loc. cit. Müllenhoff relates a similar tale, see Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 46; also Grohmann, p. 126; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 30. Bowker, p. 73, relates a story embodying a similar episode, but apparently connected with Wild Hunt legends. See his note, ibid. p. 251.

[96] Hunt, p. 91; ?F. L. Journal,? vol. vi. p. 182.