[354] Cfr. also in Afanassieff, the story, v. 19.
[355] Cfr. also, for the variations, the twenty-second of Erlenwein, and iii. 24, of Afanassieff.
[356] Story 54.
[357] Cfr. the first story of my collection of the Novelline di Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, Torino, A. F. Negro, 1869. I am also acquainted with a Piedmontese variation, differing but little from this Tuscan story.
[358] In the story, ii. 27, of the collection of Afanassieff, the beautiful princess, near the sea, combs the youngest son of the Tzar, who goes to sleep.
[359] Cfr. the chapter on the Goat.
[360] v. 37.
[361] v. 50.
[362] v. 9.
[363] In Lafontaine, Fables, vii. 1, the animal sacrificed is the ass.