[226] “Journal Amer. F. L.” vol ii. p. 137; vol. i. p. 76; Schneller, p. 210; “Rosenöl,” vol. i. p. 162; Child, vol. i. p. 337, quoting Schmidt and Apollodorus; “Panjab N. & Q.,” vol. ii. p. 207. (In this form the story is found as a tradition, probably derived from the Mahábhárata.) “Trans. Aberd. Eistedd.” p. 225; White, vol. i. p. 126.
[227] Dennys, p. 140; “Corpus Poet. Bor.” vol. i. p. 168; “Kathá-sarit-ságara,” vol. ii. p. 453, cf. p. 577; White, vol. i. p. 88; Schneller, p. 210; Robertson Smith, p. 50.
[228] Gill, p. 265.
[229] “Indian N. & Q.” vol. iv. p. 147.
[230] “Sacred Books of the East,” vol. xxvii. pp. 471, 475, 476; “Indian N. & Q.” vol. iv. p. 147.
[231] Romilly, p. 134; Landes, p. 123.
[232] Bent, p. 13. The Nereids in modern Greek folklore are conceived in all points as Swan-maidens. They fly through the air by means of magical raiment (Schmidt, p. 133).
[233] See my article on the “Meddygon Myddfai,” entitled “Old Welsh Folk Medicine,” “Y Cymmrodor,” vol. ix. p. 227.
[234] A certain German family used to excuse its faults by attributing them to a sea-fay who was reckoned among its ancestors; Birlinger, “Aus Schwaben,” vol. i. p. 7, quoting the “Zimmerische Chronik.”
[235] Namely, her husband's father, whose name she was not permitted by etiquette to utter. See above, p. 309.