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Page 5. For note † substitute See note on page 281.

Page 12, line 16 " Every day when he awakes from sleep, a hundred thousand gold pieces shall be found under his pillow." This may be compared with Grimm's No. 60, " Die zwei Briider." Each of the brothers finds every day a gold piece under his pillow.

Page 14. Add to footnote See also the story of "Die Kaiserin Trebisonda" in a collection of South Italian tales by Woldemar Kaden, entitled " Unter den Olivenbaumen" and published in 1880. The hero of this story plays the same trick as Putraka, and gains thereby an inexhaustible purse, a pair of boots which enable the wearer to run like the wind, and a mantle of invisibility. See also " Beutel, Miintclchen und Wunderhorn" in the same collection, and No. XXII in Miss Stokes's Indian Fairy Tales. The story is found in the Avadanas translated by Stanislas Julien : (Leveque, Mythes et Legendes de L'Inde et de la Perse, p. 570, Liebrecht, zur Volkskunde, p. 117.) M. Leveque thinks that La Fontaine was indebted to it for his Fable of L' Huitre et les Plaideurs. See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. I, pp. 126127, and 162.

Page 16, line 1. " And so taking Patali in his arms he flew away from that place through the air." Compare the way in which Zauberer Vergilius carries off the daughter of the Sultan of Babylon, and founds the town of Naples, which ho makes over to her and her children : (Simrock's Deutsche Volksbiicher, Vol. VI, pp. 354, 355.) Dunlop is of opinion that the mediasval traditions about Vergil are largely derived from Oriental sources.

Page 20. Add to note A faint echo of this story is found in Gonzenbach'u Sicilianische Marchen, No. 55, pp. 359 362. Cp. also No. 72(i) in the Novellas Morlini. (Liobrecht's Dunlop, p. 497.)

Page 22, last line of the page, " Yogananda threw S'akatala into a dark dungeon and his hundred sons with him." Compare this with the story of Ugolino in Dante's Inferno.

Page 30, line 5. For " performing" read " presiding at."

Page 42. Add to note % This belief seems to be very general in Wales, see Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 113. See also Kuhn's Herabkunft des Fcuers, p. 93, De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. II, p. 285.

Page 44. Add to note* See also Ralston's Russian Folk-Tales, p. 241, where Prince Ivan by the help of his tutor Katoma propounds to the Princess Anna the l;iir, a I'iddlc which enables him to win her as his wife.

Page 46. Add to footnote. M. Levequo (Lcs Myth->s rt I/-^ n.lc-s de L'lado p 327) connects this story with that of Philemon and Baucis. LLo lays particular stress upon the following lines of Ovid : 72