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76 of the Czar would be led to the sea to serve as food for the dragon. Ivan rode to the sea. The beautiful Czarina warned him. He had, however, enormous strength. As the dragon rose raging from the sea he killed him. A water carrier of the king's found the rescued one and brought her to her father. He threatened, on the way, to kill her if she did not say he was her rescuer.

A second dragon demanded (by means of a note attached to an arrow which was let fly through a window into the hall when the Czar and the nobles were assembled) in the same way the second daughter. Ivan again went through the same adventure. The water carrier demanded that she say to her father what he wished.

Then, in the same manner exactly, it came the turn of the youngest daughter, the best beloved of the father, Ivan carried through this third conflict successfully, and killed also the third dragon.

Before the water carrier could celebrate his wedding with her Ivan came to the palace and the Czarina knew him and declared him to be her saviour who should take her to wife, and the water carrier was hung.

At the close of the fairy tale "Ivan Czarevitch and Bjely Poljanin" (Afanassiew, No. 36) the hero came in the three times ninth land and three times tenth kingdom where a princess lived with a dragon Czar. He killed the dragon, freed the princess from captivity, and married her.

In the fairy tale "The Two Brothers" (Grimm, 60) a hunter comes to a city where sadness reigns. Outside the city is a high mountain on which lives a dragon who, every year, must have a pure young maiden, otherwise he lays waste the land. Now only the king's daughter is left who is to be sacrificed on the following day. The hero receives superhuman strength by drinking from a magic goblet, kills the dragon and marries the princess.

The motive of sexual cruelty is contained in typical form in the history set forth in the fairy tales of the "Thousand and One Nights."

The king swore (so that no one could be untrue to him) that each night he would choose a different young maiden whom he would have put to death in the morning; for there was, in the