[3] There is a studied ambiguity in all these words, the usual play on affection and oil being kept up. A marginal correction in a Sanskrit College MS. lent to me, gives hṛidayam. The text has ránjitam stháthaván. The latter is a vox nihili. Brockhaus’s text may be explained—My hand full of my heart was steeped in affection for you.
[4] For “funeral human sacrifice for the service of the dead,” see Tylor’s Primitive Culture, pp. 413–422. Cp. Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. III, pp. 165 and 166.
[5] i. e. Producer of horns.
[6] Cp. the 31st tale in Signora von Gonzenbach’s Sicilianische Märchen, (p. 209) where the black figs produce horns. There is also in the same story a pipe that compels all that hear its sound to dance. See Dr. Reinhold Köhler’s notes on the tale: also Grimm’s No. 110 and his notes in his third volume. Cp. also Veckenstedt’s Wendische Sagen, p. 65. See also Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, p. 283: Bernhard Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, No. 20, and Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 484. The incident in Sicilianische Märchen closely resembles one in the story of Fortunatus as told in Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. III, p. 175. There is a pipe that compels all the hearers to dance in Hug of Bordeaux, Vol. X, p. 263, and a very similar fairy harp in Wirt Sikes’s British Goblins, p. 97; and a magic fiddle in Das Goldene Schachspiel, a story in Kaden’s Unter den Olivenbäumen, p. 160. A fiddler in Bartsch’s Sagen aus Meklenburg, (Vol. I, p. 130) makes a girl spin round like a top. From that day she was lame. See also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. I, pp. 182 and 288, and Baring Gould, IInd Series, p. 152. Kuhn, in his Westfälische Märchen, Vol. I, p. 183, mentions a belief that horns grew on the head of one who looked at the Wild Huntsman. It is just possible that this notion may be derived from the story of Actæon. A statue found in the ruins of the villa of Antoninus Pius near Lavinium represents him with his human form and with the horns just sprouting. (Engravings from Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Plate XLV.) Cp. also the story of Cipus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses XV, 552–621. For the magic pipe see Grimm’s Irische Märchen, Einleitung, p. lxxxiii; Rohde, Der Griechische Roman, p. 264. Remarks on the pipe and horns will be found in Ralston’s Tibetan Tales, Introduction pp. liv–lvi.
[7] Cp. Grimm’s Märchen, No. 193. The parallel between Grimm’s story and that of Vidúshaka in Chapter 18 is still more striking.
[8] This idea, which is met with so frequently in this work, is found in China also. See Giles’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. I, p. 177, where Miss Li, who is a devil, hears the cock crow and vanishes.
[9] Cp. Veckenstedt’s Wendische Sagen, pp. 256 and 394. See also No. CXXIX in Giles’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Vol. II, p. 265, the title of which is “Making of Animals.” Cp. with the string the gold rings in the Volsunga Saga, Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. III, p. 30. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses VIII, 850, and ff. there is an account of Mestra’s transformations. Neptune gave her the power of transforming herself whenever she was sold by her father. See also the story of Achelous and Hercules in book IX of the Metamorphoses; Prym and Socin’s Syrische Märchen, p. 229, where we have the incident of the selling; Waldau, Böhmische Märchen, p. 125; Coelho Contos Portuguezes, p. 32.
[10] Pandit Śyámá Charan Mukhopádhyáya conjectures áśoshyamáne. This I adopt unhesitatingly.
[11] Cp. Sagas from the Far East, p. 35. This story very closely resembles that of Sidi Noman in the Arabian Nights, and the Golden Ass of Apuleius.
[12] Compare Lane’s Arabian Nights, Vol. I, pp. 156, 157, also Campbell’s Tales from the Western Highlands, Vol. II, p. 422, and Sagas from the Far East, p. 4. This part of the story comes under Mr. Baring-Gould’s Magical Conflict root. (See his Story Radicals in the appendix to Henderson’s Folklore of the Northern Counties.) Cp. also Miss Keary’s Heroes of Asgard, p. 223, where Loki and Idúna in the forms of a falcon and a sparrow are pursued by the giant Thiassi in the shape of an eagle.