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 140 TABULATION OF FOLKTALES.

Glaick, John

Sets out to seek adventures, and comes to a country infested by two giants (3, 4).

Offers Ms services to kill them, succeeds in doing so (5, G, 7, 8, 9, 10).

Marriage with the king's daughter (11).

Sent to quell a rebellion (13).

Mounted on a fleet horse and loses control of it (13, 1 4V

Frightens the rebels (15).

Becomes king (17).

Horse runs off, and carries away the gallows, 14 Killing of flies (2). Marriage of the king's daughter (4). Pebbles, throwing of (8). Rebellion in land (12). Kebels frightened and run (15).

Where published. The Folklore Journal, vol. vii., pp. 163-105.

Nature Of Collection, whether :

1. Original or translation.

2. If by word of mouth state narrator's name.

3. Other particulars.

Special Points noted by the Editor of the above. Tale consists of two

parts: The killing of two giants, and the defeat of the rebel army. Both belong to the group of tales in which brute force is overcome by trick, intelligence, or good fortune. For the first part comp. " The Brave Little Tailor " in Grimm's collection, the Chilian Tale of " Don Juan Bolondron, killer of seven with one fisticuff," " Chilian Popular Tales," in The Folklore Journal, vol. iii. p. 299, the original Spanish in Biblioteca de las Tradiciones populares Espanolas, tomo, i., pp. 121-125. As to the fly-killing, compare the story of " Fatii Khan, the Valiant Weaver," in Wide- Awake Stories, and the Milanese story of the Cobbler, Italian Popular Tales, by T. F. Crane (London, 1885).

Remarks by the Tabulator.

(Signed) WALTER GREGOR.