LXII. SCRAPEFOOT
Under me doth lie
Another much richer than I.
He accordingly digs deeper and finds another pot of gold.
Journal of Philology
Masnavi
floruit
LXIV. THE OLD WITCH
Frau Holle
Toads and Diamonds
, 1851, but entirely rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has introduced from other variants one touch at the close—viz., the readiness of the wife to allow her husband to remain disfigured.
Pantschatantra
, i., 140-1, I have pointed out an earlier version in Ph?drus where it occurs (as in the prose versions) as the fable of
denouement
seq.
Teutonic Mythology
LXVII. A SON OF ADAM
, ed. Prof. Crane, No. xiii., and references given in notes, p. 139. It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.
were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse. Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry’s
. But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk.
LXVIII. THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD
ENGLISH VARIANTS OF CINDERELLA
GREGOR. || LANG. || CHAMBERS, I. and II. || BLIND.
Ill-treated heroine (by parents). || Calf given by dying mother. ||
Helpful animal (red calf). || Ill-treated heroine (by stepmother and sisters). ||
Countertasks.
Slaying of helpful animal threatened. || Hearth abode. ||
Heroine flight. || Helpful animal. ||
Heroine disguise (rashin coatie). || Slaying of helpful animal. || Menial heroine. || Slaying of helpful animal.
Menial heroine. || Revivified bones. || (Fairy) aid. || Old woman advice.
|| Help at grave. || || Revivified bones.
|| Dinner cooked (by helpful animal). || || Task performing animal.
Magic dresses (given by calf). || Magic dresses. || Magic dresses. || Meeting-place (church).
Meeting-place (church). || Meeting-place (church). || Meeting-place (church). || Dresses (not magic).
Flight. || Flight threefold. || Flight threefold. || Flight twofold.