In Campbell’s Santal Folk Tales, p. 42, the daily fights of a tiger and lizard are described, the latter being victorious each time. When the tiger was carrying off a man whom it intended to eat it was frightened away by being told that he had the lizard with him.
Page 363. The jackal’s instruction to the lion to eat while seated is in accordance with the rules given in the Mahā Bhārata (Anuśāsana Parva).
Page 366. There is a variant in the Sierra Leone district, given in Cunnie Rabbit, etc., p. 265. The surviving wife of two ill-treated the other’s daughter, and sent her to get the devil to wash their rice stick. She behaved civilly to some hoe handles tied in a bundle which spoke to her, and to a one-eyed person,—(both being forms assumed by the demon),—and removed insects from the devil’s head; he washed the rice stick for her, and told her to take four eggs from his house. She selected small ones, threw them down, one after another, on her way home, as he told her, and received houses, servants, soldiers, wealth, goods, and jewellery. She also, as instructed by him, pounded rice on her dead mother’s grave, and sang, calling her back to life. When the other woman’s daughter was sent she behaved rudely to all, and selected four large eggs, out of which came bees that stung her, snakes that threatened her, men who flogged her, and fire which burned up her house, her mother, and herself.
Page 368. In last line of text, for tika read ṭika.
Page 377. In Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues, vol. iii, p. 250, a man was told when buying a demon (Piśāca) that he might be killed by him if he did not provide continual work for him. He did the work of ten men, and was employed for some years, his master becoming rich in consequence. One day when he forgot to provide work for the demon the latter put his master’s son in a pot and cooked him.
Page 379. After the first note, add, See also the Kathā Sarit Sāgara, vol. ii, pp. 242, 258.
Page 381. In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, p. 341, there is the story of the jackal who escaped from the crocodile; when he said it must be a fool to seize a root instead of his leg it released him.
In The Indian Antiquary, vol. iii, p. 10, in a Bengal story by Mr. G. H. Damant, the crocodile seized the jackal’s leg, and let go on being told it was a stick for measuring the height of the water. It then waited in the jackal’s house. He noticed this, and addressed the house, “O house! O house of earth! What have you to say?” The crocodile grunted in reply, and the jackal ran off.
In Folk-Tales from Tibet, p. 145, a tortoise [turtle] wishing to punish a monkey, hid in the cave they both occupied. The monkey, suspecting it, called out “O great cave! O great cave!” When he repeated it and remarked on the absence of the usual echo, the tortoise repeated the words, and the monkey escaped.
In Old Hendrik’s Tales, p. 107, there is a Hottentot variant. The wolf, in order to settle some outstanding scores, got hid in the jackal’s house during his absence; but the jackal, seeing his footprints, suspected this, and called out, “My ole house! My ole house!” When no reply came on his repeating it, he said he knew Ou’ Wolf must be inside, or the house would say “Come in,” as usual. On the wolf’s repeating the words he laughed, and ordered it out.