Marie de Brabant, daughter of Henri III, duc de Brabant. She married Philippe le Hardi, king of France, and was accused by Labrosse of having poisoned Philippe’s son by his former wife. Jean de Brabant defended the queen’s innocence by combat, and being the victor, Labrosse was hung (1260-1321).
Ancelot has made this the subject of an historical poem called Marie de Brabant, in six chants (1825).
Marie Kirikitoun, a witch who promised to do a certain task for a lassie, in order that she might win a husband, provided the lassie either remembered the witch’s name for a year and a day, or submitted to any punishment she might choose to inflict. The lassie was married, and forgot the witch’s name; but the fay was heard singing, “Houpa, houpa, Marie Kirikitoun! Nobody will remember my name,” The lassie, being able to tell the witch’s name, was no more troubled.—Basque Legend.
Grimm has a similar tale, but the name is Rumpel-stilzchen, and the song was:
Little dreams my dainty dame,
Rumplestilzchen is my name.
Marie Rogret (The Mystery of). The mysterious murder of a grisette in New York City supplied material for The Mystery of Marie Roget, in which Poe, with marvellous skill, “works up a case” which subsequent events proved to have been the correct theory of the murder in all its details.—Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842).
Mariette.
“Too rash is she for cold coquette,—
Love dares not claim her;