64. Fair Janet.
P. 102 f. (Breton ballad), III (497 b, No 5), 508 b, IV, 464 a, V, 222 a. Add to the French ballads a copy from Basse-Normandie obtained by M. Couraye du Parc, Études romanes dédiées à Gaston Paris, 1891, p. 49; ‘L’infidèle punie,’ Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 254. [On the similarity of the beginning of ‘La Fidanzata Infedele’ to that of the Danish ballad ‘Hyrde og Ridderfrue,’ see Olrik, Ridderviser, I, 181, No 349.]
P. 109. Something similar to what is narrated in F 7-10 is, I am assured by high authorities, familiar to practising physicians. An eminent professor in the Harvard Medical School informs me that in the case of two families under his care the husband has been regularly troubled with “morning sickness” during the first three or four months of the wife’s pregnancy (the husband in neither case being of a nervous or hysterical disposition). Mr. E. E. Griffith, late of Harvard College, tells me that a respectable and intelligent man of his acquaintance in Indiana maintained that he always shared the pains of his wife during parturition, and that his labors were as intense in degree and as long in time as hers. A distinguished physician of Indiana, while testifying to the frequency of cases of the like sympathy, insists that such experiences occur only to husbands who have witnessed the pains in question, or who have learned about them by reading or conversation on the matter, and that “suggestion” affords an explanation of the phenomenon.
65. Lady Maisry.
P. 112 f. In a Polish ballad a girl who has had a child irregularly is burned by her two brothers. Her paramour comes by when she is half burned, and she begs him to save her. (How can I? he says; your brothers are here. The brothers say, we have done wrong to burn her; we have left her child an orphan.) Kolberg, Lud, XVI, 291, No 476.
P. 114, st. 17.
O whare is a’ my merry young men,
Whom I gi meat and fee?
With this common-place compare:
Hvor ere nu de Kæmper, min Fader giver Brød (Løn), Grundtvig, D. g. F., No 184, G, 8, 9.