[497] So the Yorkshire Bar-guest.
[499] See our Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, where (p. 237) most of what follows will be found, with notes.
[500] Parthenius Erotica, chap. xxix.
[501] Aulularia, Prologue.
[502] See our Mythology of Greece and Italy, p. 543; and our Ovid's Fasti, Excursus iv.
[503] Satyricon, ch. 38. Sunt qui eundem (Hercules) Incubonem esse velint. Schol. Hor. Sat. ii. 6, 13.
[504] Viessieux, Italy and the Italians, vol. i. pp. 161, 162.
[505] L'huorco, the Orco of Bojardo and Ariosto, probably derived from the Latin Orcus: see Mythol. of Greece and Italy, p. 527. In this derivation we find that we had been anticipated by Minucci in his notes on the Malmantile Racquistato, c. ii. st. 50.
In a work, from which we have derived some information (Lettres sur les Contes des Fées, Paris, 1826), considerable pains are taken, we think to little purpose, to deduce the French Ogre from the Oïgours, a Tartar tribe, who with the other tribes of that people invaded Europe in the twelfth century. In the Glossaire de la Langue Romaine, Ogre is explained by Hongrois. Any one, however, that reads the Pentamerone will see that the ugly, cruel, man-eating Huorco is plainly an Ogre; and those expert at the tours de passe passe of etymology will be at no loss to deduce Ogre from Orco. See Tales and Popular Fictions, p. 223.