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Rh Italian Stories (5. 7) in the Pentamerone, Morlini, No. 80, and Straparola (7, 5) come much nearer to it. A Hungarian story in Stier, p. 61, and a Russian in Dieterich, No. 3, also belong to this group.

The Parrot, which is the fourth story in the Persian Touti Nameh, bears some resemblance to this. There are three youths, the eldest of whom is endowed with the gift of knowing where anything which has been lost is to be found, and also of foreseeing the future; the second has made an artificial horse of wood on which he can ride about in the air at will; the third is an archer, and his arrow never misses its mark. By their arts they discover the beautiful maiden whom an enchantress has set on a high, inaccessible mountain, and they carry her away, but then a dispute arises as to which of them she belongs to. Compare Ssidi Kur and a Negro story in Kölle, p. 145.

[The following passage, from the preface to one of the many editions of Grimm's Hausmärchen, explains a singular expression in this story. "I am constantly endeavouring to record popular sayings and characteristic forms of speech, and am always on the watch for them. I will give an example, especially as it needs explanation. When a countryman wishes to express his satisfaction with anything, he says, 'I admire that more than green clover!' a thickly-grown, flourishing clover-field being a sight which gladdens his heart. Even old German poets celebrate it in the same way. MS. Hag. 2, 66$b$, 94$b$."]

From Upper Lusatia. This beautiful story was communicated by Th. Pesheck, in Büsching's Wöchentliche Nachrichten, 2. 17-26, from whence we have borrowed it, but have given it in our own words. It is also told on the Rhine, where however they tell it of eight sisters each having one eye more than the other. Two-eyes is the Cinderella, and the wise woman who takes pity on her sufferings, is probably her own departed mother. The story is clearly related to Cinderella all through; there is the tree from which gold and silver is shaken, and the wooer whose request can only be granted by the true bride. A magic tree springing from the entrails of the goat which is buried, is like the heart which is taken out of the bird in the Gold Bird (No. 60) and in Donkey Cabbages (No. 122), and brings riches. The idea of a person with only one eye occurs frequently, and is familiar to us from the story of Polyphemus. Odin is one-eyed, and the Greek myth has a Jupiter with three eyes.

From the neighbourhood of Paderborn. It is somewhat differently told in Bremen. Father Bürstenbinder (brushmaker) is