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372, , , , etc., etc.; the equally favourite class of stories of unfortunate lovers, such as and, and such purely fantastic tales as , , ,, , , etc., etc.; and lastly, such “merry gestes” and Boccaccio-like “inventions” as, , ,, , (one of many stories of trickery practised by women upon their husbands or lovers), and most of the series of short tales known as “.” It is into this latter portion of the collection that European authors appear to have dipped most freely, many of the incidents in works of the Decameron and Heptameron kind and in such bodies of popular fiction as those collected or expanded by Grimm, Asbjornsen,Asbjørnsen, [sic] Andersen, etc., etc., bearing unmistakable traces of affinity, immediate or derivative, with the Thousand and One Nights.

(4) Fables and apologues or short moral stories, such as, and the parables and moral instances of which the (Indian) story of  in great part consists.

(5) Tales, so called, such as, the examination