Page 128. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 226, a potter’s wife who gave birth to a boy while digging clay, decided to take home her basket of clay, and leave the child, which was found and reared by a tiger. On p. 289, a woman who had borne twins in the jungle while collecting fruit, left them, and took home her basket of fruit instead. They were found and reared by two vultures, rejoined their parents, and being discovered by the birds were torn in two during the struggle for them.
Page 133. In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. iii, p. 29, the King of Vidēha sent to the King of Kāśi, as a present, a casket containing two poisonous snakes. When the King opened it the venom of the snakes blinded him.
Page 136. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 348, a deaf Santal who was ploughing at cross roads was asked by a Hindū where the roads went, and not understanding the language thought he was claiming the bulls of the plough. After the question had been repeated several times he began to think the man really had a claim to them, so to avoid being beaten he unyoked them and handed them over to the man, who went off with them. The next mistake was about the food brought by his mother to the field; she complained of it when she returned home, and scolded her daughter-in-law.
Page 145. In the Mahā-Bhārata (Ādi Parva, cxlii), a Rākshasa called Vaka protected a country, but required daily one cart-load of rice, two buffaloes, and a man, as his supply of food. One of the five Pāṇḍava Princes, Bhimasēna, at his mother’s request took the place of a Brāhmaṇa whose turn had come to be eaten, ate up the food in front of the Rākshasa, and then threw him down and broke his neck.
Page 159. In the Mahā Bhārata (Udyoga Parva, cix) it is stated that the residence of the gods who subsist on smoke is in the south. In Kaffir Folk-Lore (Theal), p. 22, it is said that “the hunger of the spirit is allayed with the smoke” of the burnt offerings of animals.
Page 166. In the Kathā Sarit Sāgara, vol. i, p. 86, Śiva gave two red-lotus flowers to a man and his wife, saying that if one of them proved unfaithful the other’s lotus would fade. In vol. ii, p. 601, a man said that his wife had given him a garland which would not fade if she remained chaste.
In a Khassonka story in Contes Soudanais (C. Monteil), p. 134, a lion gave a herb to his friend who had become King, telling him that while it was green and fresh the lion would be alive, but when it withered and became yellow he would be dead.
In Kaffir Folk-Lore (Theal), p. 81, a boy who was about to visit cannibals stuck his assagai in the ground, and said, “If it stands still, you will know I am safe; if it shakes, you will know I am running; if it falls down, you will know I am dead.”
In Sagas from the Far East, p. 106, six friends separated at a place where six streams met, and each one planted at his stream a tree that would wither if evil befel him. When five returned and saw that the tree of the sixth had withered they went in search of him.
Page 167. In Folk-Tales of Kashmir, 2nd ed., p. 73, the life of a sorcerer was bound up in an earthen pot which he left with his sister; when it was broken he died.