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 Page 189. Add to note f For the idea see note on page 305.

Page 205. Add to note f Lenormant in his ChalcUean Magic and Sorcery, p. 41, (English Translation), observes : " We must add to the number of those mysterious rites the use of certain enchanted drinks, which doubtless really contained medicinal drugs, as a cure for diseases, and also of magic knots, the efficacy of which was firmly believed in, even up to the middle ages." See also Ralston's Songs of the Russian people, p. 288.

Page 206. Add to note * Cp. also Kaden's TJnter den Olivenbaumen, p. 56.

Page 224. Add to note * In Wirfc Sikes's British Goblins, p. 84, a draught from a forbidden well has the same effect.

Page 237, Add to note* See also Bartsch' s Sagen, Marchen, und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, VoL I, p. 90.

Page 241, line 4, " Story of the seven Brahmans." This appears to be found in a slightly different form in the Harivansa. (Leveque, Mythes et L^gendes de 1'Inde, p. 220).

Page 253. Add to note * A very striking parallel will be found in Bernhard Schmidt's Griechische Marchen, Story No. 3, p. 68. In this story the three Moirai predict evil. The young prince is saved by his sister, from being burnt, and from falling over a precipice when a child, and from a snake on his wedding-day. See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. II, pp. 301302.

Page 254. Add to note * See also Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors, Book IV ch. 9, " Of saluting upon sneezing."

Page 255, line 22, " the evil importunity of Pisachas." There is a story illus- trating the " pertinacity" of goblins in Wirt Sikes's British Goblins, p. 191.

Page 263. Add to footnote. Compare also the way in which the gardener in "Das Rosmarinstrauchlein," Kaden's Unter den Olivenbaumen, p. 12, acquires some useful information. The story of Kirtisena from this point to the cure of the king closely resembles the latter half of Die Zauberkugeln in the same collection.

Page 276. Add to footnote. So Arthur in the Romance of Artus de la Bretagne (Liebrecht's Dunlop, p. 107) falls in love with a lady he sees in a dream. Liebrecht in his note at the end of the book tells us that this is a common occurrence in Romances, being found in Amadis of Greece, Palmerin of Oliva, the Romans de Sept Sages, the Fabliau of the Chevalier a la Trappe, the Nibelungen Lied, &c., and ridiculed by Chaucer in his Rime of Sir Topas. He also refers to Athenseus, p. 675, and the Henno- timus of Lucian.

Page 286. Add to note * Cp. the story of St. Macarius.

Page 290. Add to footnote. See also Bartsch's Sagen, Marchen, und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. I, pp. 265, 313, 441444, and 447, where peas are used for the same purpose. See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, p. 165.

Page 305. Add to note J The same notion will be found in Bartsch's Sagen, Miirchen, und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. I, pp. 17, 64, 89, 91 ; Vol. II, p. 43.

Page 306. Add to footnote. For treasures and their guanli itsch's Sagen, Miirchon, und Gcl.nluchc aus Meklenburg, Vol. I, p. 213 and Jf, and for the candle of human fat, Vol. II, pp. 333 and 335 of the same work. Cp. also Birliiigi-r, Aus Schwaben, pp. 261 and 262 270.

Page 312. Add to note t The author of Sagas from the Far East remarks ; " Scrpont-Cultus was of very ancient observance, and is practised by both foil* of Brdhmanism and Buddhism. The Brahmans seem to have dr.-ind to show their disapproval of it by placing the serpent-gods in the lower ranks of their mythology,