The science of fairy tales

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

[81] Bartsch, vol. i. p. 42; Sikes, p. 59, quoting from the “Cambrian Quarterly,” vol. ii. p. 86; “Y Cymmrodor,” vol. vi. p. 209; Arnason's “Icelandic Legends,” cited in Kennedy, p. 89; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 174, quoting Thiele, “Danmark's Folkesagn samlede.” See also Keightley, p. 125.

[82] Fleury, p. 60; “Revue des Trad. Pop.” vol. iii. p. 162.

[83] Cf. Böhmen-Gold, Bartsch, vol. i. p. 22; Böhmegold, ibid. p. 47; Böhmer Gold, ibid. pp. 65, 79, and presumably p. 89; Böhma gold, Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 30; Boehman gold, ibid. p. 31; böm un gold (timber and gold), ibid. p. 105; Boem un holt (timber and wood), Jahn, p. 90; Bernholt in den Wolt (firewood in the forest), and Bremer Wold, Müllenhoff, cited Grimm, “Tales,” vol. i. p. 388. These variations while preserving a similar sound are suspicious.

[84] Grimm, “Tales,” vol. i. pp. 163, 388; Schleicher, p. 91; Fleury, p. 60; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 176; quoting Asbjörnsen, “Huldreeventyr,” vol. ii. p. 165. Cf. Sébillot, “Contes Pop.” vol. ii. p. 78.

[85] Sikes, pp. 58, 59; Howells, p. 138; “Y Cymmrodor,” vol. iv. p. 208, vol. vi. pp. 172, 204; Keightley, p. 436.

[86] Croker, p. 65; “A Pleasant Treatise of Witches,” p. 62, quoted in Hazlitt, “Fairy Tales,” p. 372; Sébillot, “Contes,” vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 157; Campbell, vol. ii. p. 47; “Revue des Trad. Pop.” vol. iii. p. 162. Cf. a Basque tale given by Webster, where the Devil is tricked into telling his age (Webster, p. 58).

[87] Simrock, p. 419.

[88] Jahn, p. 89; Schleicher, p. 91.

[89] “Choice Notes,” p. 27; (this seems to have been a common prescription in Wales: see “Y Cymmrodor,” vol. vi, pp. 175, 178; and in the Western Highlands: see Campbell, vol. ii. p. 64.) Brand, vol. ii. p. 335, note; (this seems also to be the case in some parts of Ireland, Lady Wilde, vol. i. p. 70.) Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 157; Kennedy, p. 94; “Irish Folk Lore,” p. 45.

[90] Beaten—Lay of Marie de France, quoted Keightley, p. 436; Costello, “Pilgrimage to Auvergne,” vol. ii. p. 294, quoted Keightley, p. 471; Fleury, p. 62, citing Bosquet, “Normandie Romanesque”; Howells, p. 139; Aubrey, “Remains,” p. 30; Jahn, pp. 98, 101; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 29; Croker, p. 81. Starved, beaten, &c.—Croker, p. 77. Threatened to be killed—Sébillot, “Trad. et Super.” vol. i. p. 118; “Contes,” vol. i. p. 28, vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4.