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 The Girl with Four Eyes.—In part the Tinkling Linden; in part The Devil (Polish).

The Friulan.—Local.

Mazzariol.—The Venetian Raras or SetekŠetek [sic] (Bohemian), Iskrzytski (Polish).

The Five Ells of Cloth.—The introduction is the same as that of the Devil and the Shoemaker (Moravian). The story is the Polish JalmuznaJałmużna [sic] (Alms).

El Giusto (The Just).—This is the Moravian Godmother Death.

How the Race of the Friulani were Born.—Local.

Siropa de barcazzo le fieve descazzo (Barge sirop drives away fever).—Local.

San Querin.—Local and Comic. The element three occurs in the beans, scarlet-runners, and corn, which connect it with the Three Citrons, etc.

Vigna era e vigna son.—No apparent relation to Slav folk-lore. It is connected, however, with the two Zodiacal signs, Leo and Virgo.

I orfaroni.—Local.

Co gerimo vivi (When we were alive).—Comic. Local.

The Three Brothers.—Burlesque, but connected by the triple element with the Slav and Arctic solar myth.

The Riddle.—No apparent relation to the Slav.

The Three who go to the Pope of Rome.—Comic.

The Three Goslings and the Cock.—These two stories belong to the Budulinek (Moravian), and Otesanek (Bohemian) group.

Petin Petelo and Galeto e Sorzeto.—This is our “Fire burn stick, stick beat dog.”

Nono Cocon.—A degraded form of Rè Corvo and the Three Citrons.

Rosseto.—In part Budulinek; in part a corrupted form of Hank a JankaJank a Hanka [sic]. Comic.

Sorzeto e Luganega.—An amusing variety of Petin Petelo.

La Mosca.—The same as Un Vecieto birbo. (Bernoni; last collection).

The Three Sisters.—Long, Broad, and Sharp-Eyes. The flask of water giving life connects it with the next story, and this with the Dragon and Czar’s son (Serbian), which in turn links it to the Lapp—The giant who preserved his life in an egg.

The Twelve Brothers and the Twelve Sisters.—As the last. It contains also the principal incident of the Spirit of the Unburied one (Polish), and that of Joseph and his Brethren, but in a form which shows that this last is really an allegory of the dubious victory of the spring at the beginning of the year. The youngest of the twelve brethren thrown into the well by them, and saved from it by the spirit of the Unburied one whom he had buried, is the Hero of vitality who buried the Sun in winter, and in return is saved from the spring flood by it in spring.