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 Page 133, lino 1. Cp. the way in which the witch treats the corpse of her son in the Vlth book of the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, ch. 14, and Lucan'a Pharealia, Book VI, 754757.

Page 134, line 25. Cp. Simrock's Deutsche Volksbiicher, Vol. Ill, p. 399.

Page 137, line 26. General Cunningham identifies Pauudravardhana with the modern Pubna.

Page 138. Add to note See also the 30th page of Lenormant's Chaldn ,m Magic and Sorcery, English translation.

Page 142, lines 1 and 2. For stories of transportation through the air, see Wir Sikes, British Goblins, p. 157 and/ 1.

Pago 142. Add to footnote. See also the story of Heinrich der Lowe, Simrock's Deutsche Volksbiicher, Vol. I, pp. 21 and 22.

Pago 151. Add to note * Probably the expression means " flexible, well-tempered sword," as Professor Nflmani Mukhopadhyaya has suggested to me.

Page 153, lino 21. For the worship of trees and tree-spirits, see Grimm's Teu- tonic Mythology, p. 75 and,/'., and Tylor's Primitive Culture, Vol. II, p. 196 and^.

Pago 154. Add to note See also Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, pp. 200, and 201 ; Henderson's Northern Folk-lore, p. 19, Bartsch's Sagen, Miirchen, und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. I, pp. 128, 213. Professor Jebb, in his notes on Theophrastus* Superstitious man, observes " The object of all those ceremonies, in which the offerings were carried round the person or place to be purified, was to trace a charmed circle within which the powers of evil should not come."

Page 157. Add to note* In Icelandic Sagas a man with meeting eyebrows is said to be a werewolf. The same idea holds in Denmark, also in Germany, whilst in Greece it is a sign that a man is a Brukolak or Vampire. (Note by Baring-Gould in Henderson's Folk-lore of the Northern Counties).

Page 159, line 15. " Kalaratri came into it with a drawn sword in her hand." Cp. the Aethiopica of Heliodorus, Book VII, ch. 15, where the witch is armed with a sword during her incantations ; and Homer's Odyssey, XI, 48. See also for the magic virtues of steel Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, pp. 312, 313. Add to footnote J See also Bartsch's Sagen, Miirchon und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. I, p. 115.

Pago 166. Add to note f See also Bernhard Schmidt's Gricchische Marchcn, p. 38. " A popular ballad referring to the story of Digenis gives him a life of 300 years, and represents his death as due to his killing a hind that had on its shoulder the image of the Virgin Mary, a legend the foundation of which is possibly a recollec- tion of the old mythological story of the hind of Artemis killed by Agamemnon." [Sophoclis Elcctra, 568.] In the llomance of Doolin of Mayence Guyon kills a hermit by mistake for a deer. (Liebrecht's translation of Dunlop's History of Fiction, p. 138) See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, pp. 84 86.

Pago 174, line 13. For " all you desire " read " all ice desire." Liebrccht, speak- ing of the novel of Guorino Meschino, compares this tree with the sun and moon- trees mentioned in the work of the 1'seudo-Callisthenes, Book III, c. 17. They inform Alexander that the years of his life are accomplished, and that ho will die in Babylon. See also Ralston's Songs of the Russian people, p. 111.

Pago 183, lino 1. M. Le"veque considers that the above story, as told in the Mahabharata, forms the basis of the Birds of Aristophanes. He identifies Garuda with the hoopoe. (Les Mythes et los Legcndes do 1' Inde et de la Perse, p. 14).

Page 183. Add to note f Seo also Bartsch's Sagen, Miirchen, und Gebriiuche aus Mekleuburg, Vol. I, p. 277 and/ 1.