[51.1] Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Zig., 148.
[51.2] Moore, 125, 140; v. Folklore, 214.
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[56.1] ii. Von Hahn, 33, referred to suprà, vol. i., p. 81.
[56.2] Suprà, vol. i., p. 213; Jülg, 53; Ovid, Metam., viii. 848. So in the island of Florida, when a man sells a pig he takes back its tarunga, or soul, in a dracæna-leaf, which he hangs up in his house, not, however, to recall the identical animal sold, but to animate another pig, when littered. Codrington, 249. This explains a custom in the south of France. When a farmer sells a calf he cuts off a piece of its hair and makes the cow swallow it, “so that she may not regret her calf, and that a better price may be got for it.” ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 581. The original reason doubtless was that the calf might be born again of her.
[57.1] See, among others, Schott, 198 (Story No. 18); Pineau, F.L., 145 (Story No. 5); Luzel, ii. Contes Pop., 95 (Story No. 5); Coelho, 33 (Story No. 15); Luzel, Le Magicien, 28, citing Straparola, Night viii., Story 5; Visentini, 37 (Story No. 8).
[57.2] Steel, 15; Gibb, 255.
[57.3] Dorsey, Cegiha, 56; Rand, 196, 248; vii. Journ. Am. F.L., 210.
[58.1] See, among others, Dozon, 89 (Story No. 12); Von Wlislocki, Transs. Zig., 111 (Story No. 47); Volksdicht., 286 (Story No. 44); Romero, 4 (Story No. 1); ii. Stumme, 62 (Story No. 4); Büttner, 122; Georgeakis, 72 (Story No. 11); Wardrop, 30. In many cases the severed member has the power, which would have belonged to its owner, of changing the hero, so long as it is in his possession, into an animal of the same kind. For instance, Wolf, Deutsche Märchen, 88 (Story No. 20); Poestion, 212 (Story No 51); i. Cosquin, 166 (Story No. 15); Carnoy, Contes Franç., 276; i. Comparetti, 240 (Story No. 55); v. Pitrè, 215 (variant of Story No. 81), 386 (Story No. 106); i. Finamore, pt. i., 90 (Story No. 19).
[58.2] Schneller, 47 (Story No. 21). The spell is more usually performed by the aid of some toy given by the hero, as in iv. Pitrè, 342 (Story No. 38).