In Folk-Tales from Tibet (O’Connor), p. 113, the life of an ogre was in a boy seated in an underground chamber, holding a crystal goblet of liquor, each drop of which was the spirit of a person whom the ogre had killed. At p. 154, the life of an ogre was in a green parrot in a rock cave.
In the Arabian Nights, vol. 5, p. 20, the soul of a Jinni was in the crop of a sparrow which was shut up in a box placed in a casket; this was enclosed in seven others, outside which were seven chests. These were kept in an alabaster coffer which was buried in the sea, and only the person wearing Solomon’s seal ring could conjure it to the surface. The Jinni died when the sparrow was strangled.
In a story of Southern Nigeria (The Lower Niger and its Tribes, Leonard, p. 320) the life of a King was in a small brown bird perched on the top of a tree. When it was shot by the third arrow discharged by a sky-born youth the King died.
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To the last note, add, A young man lost all he had, and was then made a prisoner.
Page 178. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 245, a Raja became blind on kissing his youngest son. He ordered him to be killed, but his mother persuaded the soldiers to take him to a distant country instead; there he married the Raja’s daughter, and in order to cure his father went by her advice in search of a Rākshasa, whose daughter he married. The two returned with a magical flower of hers and a hair of the Rākshasa’s head, calling on the way for his first wife. By means of the hair a golden palace was created, and when his father’s eyes were touched with the flower they were cured.
Page 185. In the notes, lines 10 and 11, the letters v and h in jivha should be transposed.
In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 207, the King’s money was stolen by two palace servants. After a soothsayer who was called had eaten the food they brought, he said, “Find or fail, I have at any rate had a square meal.” The thieves’ names being Find and Fail they thought he knew they were guilty, begged him not to tell the Raja, and disclosed the place where the money was buried. The soothsayer read a spell over mustard seed, tapped the ground with a bamboo till he came to the spot, and dug up and handed the money to the Raja, who gave him half.
In Sagas from the Far East, p. 58, in a Kalmuk tale, an assumed soothsayer recovered a talisman that he saw a Khan’s daughter drop. Through overhearing the conversation of two Rākshasas he was able to free the Khan from them, and at last by his wife’s cleverness was appointed to rule half the kingdom.