[82]. Folk-Lore students will perhaps “make a note of this.”
[83]. No. xliv of “Pleasant Stories,” in Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee, 1801.
[84]. Malcolm’s History of Persia, vol. ii, pp. 594, 5.
[85]. This Rabbinical tale has been adopted in France, where it is told of a gentleman who left his wealth to a convent, provided they gave his son “whatever they chose”—they chose the bulk of the money, which, of course, they had to restore.
[86]. Dissertation on the Literature, Languages, and Manners of Eastern Nations.
[87]. Anvar-i Suhaili, or Lights of Canopus. By Hussain Vā’iz.
[88]. The Story of Semiletka, in Mr Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, bears so close a resemblance to this rabbinical story, in the stratagem adopted by the wife, that we must conclude it cannot be a mere coincidence.
[89]. Chardin’s Voyages en Perse, &c., vol. ii, pp. 149, 220.
[90]. History of Persia, vol. ii, pp. 576–7.
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