[9.7] Burton, iv. Suppl. Nights, 245; Spitta Bey, loc. cit.
[9.8] Garnett, i. Wom., 23.
[10.1] i. Cosquin, 71; Imbriani, 88, 106, 108 (Stories Nos. 6 and 7); i. Comparetti, 27 (i. F.L. Record, 206), 274; Webster, 169; iv. Pitrè, 350. (In the last three cases the ring is the gift of the Beast to Beauty.) Leskien, 548. Clouston also refers to a ballad by Leyden. i. Pop. Tales, 171.
[10.2] iv. Pitrè, 319 (Story No. 36); Crane, 17.
[10.3] i. Comparetti, 26; Imbriani, 388; Leskien, 547; Jones and Kropf, 54, from Kriza.
[10.4] ii. Von Hahn, 45.
[10.5] Leskien, 372.
[10.6] Ralston, Russian F.T., 66, from Afanasief.
[11.1] Leskien, 548, citing Nowosielsky. The dish appears elsewhere in Russian tales for the same purpose in connection with a knife and a handkerchief. One would hardly have given the Russian peasantry credit for being so fastidious; but the explanation must be sought in the beliefs discussed in the following chapters.
[11.2] Kalevala, runes 12, 15.