[5] It is the general custom among pious people in Poland, on entering a house, or when meeting one another, to give the greeting, ‘Jesus Christ be praised.’ To which the response is, ‘From age to age.’ [↑]
[6] Albanian folk-tales open with a similar formula (Dozon’s Contes Albanais, 1881, p. 1). [↑]
[7] The Gypsy word, rashani, originally means ‘priestess.’ [↑]
[8] Cf. Campbell’s Tales of the West Highlands, i. 61, and iv. 283; and Dozon’s Contes Albanais, 27, note. [↑]
[9] It should by rights be a drake; still, the swan is suggestive of ‘swan-maidens.’ Nor does she strictly adhere to her self-prescribed rules of metamorphosis. [↑]