The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story

by Gordon Hall Gerould

Notti piacevoli, notte v, favola 1. See Benfey, Pant. ii. 532.

Tuscan.

G. Nerucci, Sessanta novelle popolari, 1880, pp. 430–437, no. lii. A folk-tale from the neighbourhood of Pistoia. See Webster, Basque Legends, pp. 182–187, Crane, Italian Popular Tales, p. 350, and Cosquin, Contes populaires, i. 215.

Istrian.

Ive, Novelline popolari rovignesi, 1877, p. 19. See d’Ancona, Studj di critica, 1880, p. 354, and the summary by Crane, Italian Popular Tales, 1885, no. xxxv. pp. 131–136, from whom, as Ive’s collection has been inaccessible to me, I derive my knowledge of the story. Crane gives the title of Ive as Fiabe, etc., d’Ancona as above.

Venetian.

G. Bernoni, Tradizioni populari veneziane, 1875, pp. 89–96. Referred to by Crane, Italian Popular Tales, p. 350.

Sicilian.

Laura Gonzenbach, Sicilianische Märchen, 1870, ii. 96–103. Summarized briefly by Hippe, pp. 153 f., and by Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 239 f.

Brazilian.