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 TABULATION OF FOLKTALES. 141

[No. 54.] Generic Name of Story. (Not to be filled up).

Specific Name. Donna Guangula.

Dramatis Person83, So mere an abstract is given'of^this variant of Bianca- coum-nivi-russa-coum-foca that it is impossible to make a list of persons represented.

Thread Of Story- A queen, desirous of a child, vows to distribute to the people a fountain of oil and a storehouse of corn if she had a child.

The curse of the old woman on the queen's son (the hero) when born and become a youth is to go and seek for Donna Guangula, the heroine.

Donna Guangula, flying with the hero, provides herself, beside gold, with a paper of nails, a packet of razors, a handful of flints, and a piece of soap. The ogre, who had held in his power the heroine, follows the fugitives. They fling him one after another these objects, and thus impede him. When he overtakes them the heroine changes herself into an eel and the prince into a fountain. The ogre endeavours to drink the fountain up, to drink therewith the eel, but is disappointed, and, desperate, he curses the future union of the lovers with the fatal kiss of the hero's mother.

The heroine, forgotten by the hero, sends two dolls enchanted by her with a breath, and these, at the hero's marriage feast, on his wedding another lady, reveal all.

Incidental circumstances. (Nil.)

Where published. Fiabe NovelU e Ilaconti Pojjolari Siciliani raccalti ed illustrati da Guiseppe Pitre (Palermo 1875) Variant of Story No. 13. vol. i. p. 117.

Nature of collection, whether :

1. Original or translation. Original.

2. If by word of mouth, state narrator's name. Not given.

3. Other particulars. Collected at Cianciana by Signer Gaetano di Giovanni, who is characterized as the worthy historian of Casteltcrmini.

Special Points noted by the Editor of the above. (Nil.) (Signed) E. SIDNEY HAKTLAND,

Swansea.

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