[119] This story is very like that of the “Rider of Grianaig,” “Tales of the West Highlands,” iii. No. 58.
[120] Cf. Herodotus, bk. iv. chap. 172.
[121] Khudyakof, No. 44.
[122] Erlenvein, No. 12, p. 67. A popular tradition asserts that the Devil may be killed if shot with an egg laid on Christmas Eve. See Afanasief, P.V.S. ii. 603.
[123] Afanasief, i. No. 14, p. 92. For an account of Buyan, see “Songs of the Russian People,” p. 374.
[124] Afanasief, vii. No. 6, p. 83.
[125] Some of these have been compared by Mr. Cox, in his “Mythology of the Aryan Nations,” i. 135-142. Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare “the moon sacrificed in the morning,” and in the egg the sun. “Zoological Mythology,” i. 269.
[126] Asbjörnsen and Moe, No. 36, Dasent, No. 9, p. 71.
[127] Asbjörnsen’s “New Series,” No. 70, p. 39.
[128] Haltrich’s “Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen,” p. 188.