The explanatory story of “John-crow peel-head” is very popular in Jamaica. See Pamela Smith, 25–26, and number [17d].
48. Why Dog is always Looking. [[Story]]
In Milne-Home, 121, “Jack Spaniard” (a wasp-like fly) laughs at Mosquito’s boast till “he broke his waist in two.”
In Jones, 22, Sparrow makes the boast about his father’s crop of potatoes.[2]
49. Why Rocks at the River are covered with Moss. [[Story]]
See Milne-Home, 94–95; Jekyll, 52.
Compare Parsons, Andros Island, 119–121 and note for references; Bundy, JAFL 32: 412–413, and see note to number [138].
For a discussion of Grimm 110, The Jew among Thorns, see Bolte u. Polívka 2: 490–503.