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Rh him first in Revue Celtique, t. iii.; then in his Custom and Myth, p. 89; and again in Folk-Lore, September, 1890. I have changed the name so as to retain the équivoque of the giant's reply to the king. I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, mainly from the Pentamerone version, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original. The usual ending of tales of this class contains the "sale of bed" incident, for which see Child, i., 391.

Parallels.—Mr. Lang, in the essay, A Far-travelled Tale, in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea. An American English variant was read by Mr. Newell before the FolkLore Congress under the title, Lady Feather Flight. Mr. Newell suggests that Shakespeare's Tempest owes something to the main idea of the tale, a warlock's daughter falling in love with his captive and helping him with tasks. A fuller study in Cosquin, l. c., ii., 12-28. For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in Orient und Occident, ii., III. Cf. also note on "The Battle of the Birds" in Celtic Fairy Tales, and on the tale of the Argonauts in Wonder Voyages

VIII. JACK HANNAFORD

Source.—Henderson's Folk-Lore of Northern Counties (first edition), p. 319. Communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.

Parallels.—"Pilgrims from Paradise" are enumerated in Clouston's Book of Noodles, pp. 205, 214-8. I have also two other English variants in MS., "The Bob-tailed Mare" and "Hereafterthis," the latter of which I have given in More English Fairy Tales. See also Cosquin, l. c., i., 239.

IX. BINNORIE

Source.—From the ballad of the "Two Sisters o' Binnorie." I have used the longer version in Roberts's Legendary Ballads, with one or two touches from Mr. Allingham's shorter and more powerful variant in The Ballad Book. A tale is the