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 Page 102 ; Add to note * Cp. Henderson's Folk-lore of the Northern Counties, p. 131.

Page 103 Add to note * This story bears a certain resemblance to the termina- tion of Alles aus einer Erbse, Kadon's Unter den Olivenbiiumen, p. 22. See also page 220 of the same collection.

Page 104. Add to note f Liebrecht, in note 485 to page 413 of his translation of Dunlop's History of Fiction, compares this story with one in The Thousand and One Days of a princess of Kashmir, who was so beautiful that every one who saw her went mad, or pined away. He also mentions an Arabian tradition with respect to the Thracian sorceress Uhodope. " The Arabs believe that one of the pyramids is haunted by a guardian spirit in the shape of a beautiful woman, the mere sight of whom drives men mad." He refers also to Thomas Moore, the Epicurean, Note 6 to Chapter VI, and the Adventures of Hatim Tai, translated by Duncan Forbes, p. 18.

Page 115. For parallels to the story of Urvasi, see Kuhn's Herabkunft des Feuer's, p. 88.

Page 121, lino 6. Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology (translation by Stallybrass, p. 121, note,) connects the description of wonderful maidens sitting inside hollow trees or perched oc the boughs, with tree-worship.

Page 130, line 6. Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology (translation by Stallybrass, p. 392) remarks " One principal mark to know heroes by is their possessing intelligent horses, and conversing with them. The touching conversation of Achilles with his Xanthos and Balios finds a complete parallel in the beautiful Karling legend of Bayard. (This is most pathetically told in Simrock's Deutsche Volksbucher, Vol. II, Die Heimons- kinder, see especially page 64). Grimm proceeds to cite many other instances from European literature. See also Note 3 to the XXth story in Miss Stokes's collection. See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. I, p. 336 and./.

Page 132. Add to note * The belief that the dead rose from the tomb in the form of Vampires appears to have existed in Chaldsea and Babylon. Lenormant observes in his Chaldiean Magic and Sorcery, (English Translation, p. 37) "In a fragment of the Mythological epopee which is traced upon a tablet in the British Museum, and relates the descent of Ishtar into Hades, we are told that the goddess, when she arrived at the doors of the infernal regions, called to the porter whoso duty it was to open them, saying,

" Porter, open thy door ; Open thy door that I may enter. If thou dost not open the door, and if I cannot enter, I will attack the door, I will break down its bars, I will attack the enclosure, I will leap over its fences by force ; I will cause the dead to rise and devour the living ; I will give to the dead power over the living." The same belief appears also to have existed in Egypt. The same author observes (p. 02). "These formula) also kept the body fircm beoomhig, during fta separation from the soul, the prey of some wieked spirit which would enter, re-animate, and cause it to rise again in the form of a vampire. For, according to the Egyptian belief, the possessing spirits, and the spectres which frightened or tormented the living were but the souls of the condemned returning tu tho earth, before undergoing the annihilation of the ' second death.' "