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Rh JACK DREADNOUGHT.&emsp;Erdélyi, iii. 16.

Cf. Grimm, "The Story of the youth who went to learn what fear was," and notes: ib. "The King's son who feared nothing," and notes. Household Stories from the Land of Hofer. "Fearless Johnny." Afanassieff, v. 46.

Page 232. The secret treasures guarded by ghosts, &amp;c. is a world-wide tradition. Cf. Hofberg, Svenska Folksägner. "Skatten i Säbybäcken," where a carriage full of gold and silver is said to be sunk mid-stream, over which a weird light flickers. Many attempts, we are told, have been made to rescue it, but each time some one has spoken, or else the bull-calves—which are not to have a single black hair on them, and were to be fed for three years on unskimmed milk—were not strong enough; and so the attempts have ever failed. See also, in the same work "Skattgräfvarna," where the searchers were frightened away by the Demon guardians of the hidden store. In Lincolnshire I have heard of a field where, tradition says, countless