P. 50, note ‖; IV, 441 b. Leprosy cured by (children’s) blood. See G. Rua, Novelle del “Mambriano,” pp. 84, 88 ff. The story about Constantine’s leprosy (Reali di Francia, lib. 1, c. 1) occurs also in Higden’s Polychronicon, Lumby, V, 122 ff., and in Gower, Confessio Amantis, bk. II, Pauli, I, 266 ff. See also Ben Jonson, Discoveries, ed. Schelling, p. 35 (G. L. K. and W. P. Few). [See Prym u. Socin, Kurdische Sammlungen, pp. 35, 36. H. von Wlislocki, M. u. S. der Bukowinaer u. Siebenbürger Armenier, pp. 60, 61. The latter gives a number of references for the story about Constantine. Cf. also Dames, Balochi Tales, No 2, in Folk-Lore, III, 518.]
IV, 441 b, 3d paragraph. Another ballad (White Russian) in which the girl is burned, Šejn, Materialy, I, I, 492, No 606.
57. D a was derived “from the housekeeper at Methven.” Sharpe’s Ballad Book, ed. 1880, p. 130.
IV, 442 a, 1st paragraph. Both hands are of the 18th century.
5. Gil Brenton.
P. 67. What is said of the bilwiz must be understood of the original conception. Grimm notes that this sprite, and others, lose their friendly character in later days and come to be regarded as purely malicious. See also E. Mogk in Paul’s Grundriss der germ. Philologie, I, 1019.
72. Splendid ships. See also Richard Coer de Lion, 60-72, Weber’s Metrical Romances, II, 5 f.; Mélusine, II, 438 f.
Some of the French ships prepared for the invasion of England in 1386 had the masts from foot to cap covered with leaves of fine gold: Froissart, ed. Buchon, X, 169. King Henry the Eighth in 1544 passed the seas in a ship with sails of cloth of gold: Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, 1649, p. 513. When Thomas Cavendish went up the Thames in 1589, his seamen and soldiers were clothed in silk, his sails were of damask, “his top-masts cloth of gold.” Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth, 1754, I, 57.
6. Willie’s Lady.
P. 82 ff. Hindering childbirth. Notes by R. Köhler to Laura Gonzenbach’s Sicilianische Märchen, now published by J. Bolte, Zeitschrift des Vereins für Volkskunde, VI, 63.