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 Unieua atuer erat, minimrr custodia Qucm Dis hospitibus domini mactare parabant : Ille celer penna tardos setate fatigat, Eluditque diu, tandemque est visus ad ipsos Confugisse deos. Super i vetnere necari.

See also Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. II, pp. 187, 297 and 414.

Page 53, last lino of page. For illustrations of this bath of blood see Dunlop'a Liebrecht, page 135, and the note at the end of the book. The story of Der arme Heinrich, to which Liebrecht refers, ia to be found in the Vlth Volume of Simrock's Deutsche Volksbuchcr.

Page 54. Add to note Gigantic birds that feed on raw flesh are mentioned by the Pseudo-Callisthenes, Book II, ch. 41. Alexander gets on the back of one of them, and is carried into the air, guiding his bird by holding a piece of liver in front of it. He is warned by a winged creature in human shape to proceed no further, and descends again to earth. See also Liebrecht's Dunlop, p. 143 and note. See also Birlinger, Aus Schwaben, pp. 6, 6, 7. He compares Pacolet's horse in the story of Valentine and Orson.

Page 58, line 5. For " the god with the bull-blazoned banner" read " the god whose emblem is a bull."

Page 64, line 9. " A village named Nagasthala near Mathura." Mr. Growse remarks : " In Hindi the word Nagasthala would assume the form Nagal ; and there is a village of that name to this day in the Mahaban Pargana of the Mathura Dis- trict."

Page 70. Add to note J In the Gehbrnte Siegfried (Simrock's Deutsche Volks- biicher, Vol. Ill, pp. 368 and 416), the hero is made invulnerable everywhere but between the shoulders, by being smeared with the melted fat of a dragon. Cp. also the story of Achilles. For the transformation of Chandamahasena into a boar see Bartsch's Sagen, Marchen und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. II, pp. 144, 145, and Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. II, p. 14.

Page 74, line 7 from the bottom. " Yaugandharayana, by means of that very charm, gave Vasantaka a body full of outstanding veins &c." Cp. the way in which the Eitter Malegis transmutes Reinold in the story of Die Heimonskinder (Sinirock's Deutsche Volksbiicher, Vol. II, p. 86). " He changed him into an old man, a hundred years of age, with a decrepit and misshapen body, and long hair." See also p. 114. So Merlin assumes the form of an old man and disguises Uther and Ulfin, Dunlop'a History of Fiction, translated by Liebrecht, p. 66.

Page 76, lino 13. Mr. Growse writes to me with reference to the name Loha- jangha " This name still exists on the spot, though probably not to be found else- where. The original bearer of the title is said to have been one of the demons whom Krishna slew, and a village is called Lohaban after him, where an ancient red sand- atone image is supposed to represent him, and has offerings of iron made to it ut the annual festival.

Page 77. Add to note f " See also the story of Heinrich dor Lowe, Simrock's Di.-ut.sche Volksbiicher, Vol. I, p. 8. Dr. Kiihler refers to the story of llerzog Ernst. The incident will be found in Simrock's version of the story, at page 308 of the Illrd Volume of his Deutsche Volksbiichor."

Page 79. Add to note f The legend of Garuda and the Balakhilyas is found in thu Muhabharata, see De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, p. 96.