FOOTNOTES:

[91] Primitive Culture, i. 357: ‘The savage sees individual stars as animate beings, or combines star-groups into living celestial creatures, or limbs of them, or objects connected with them.’

[92] This formula occurs among Bushmen and Eskimo (Bleek and Rink).

[93] The events of the flight are recorded correctly in the Gaelic variant ‘The Battle of the Birds.’ (Campbell, Tales of the West Highlands, vol. i. p. 25.)

[94] Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 132; Köhler, Orient und Occident, ii. 107, 114.

[95] Ko ti ki, p. 36.

[96] Callaway, pp. 51, 53, 64, 145, 228.

[97] See also ‘Petrosinella’ in the Pentamerone, and ‘The Master-maid’ in Dasent’s Tales from the Norse.

[98] Folklore Journal, August, 1883.

[99] Poetæ Minores Gr., ii.