Cf. Campbell, Tales of the Western Highlands, p. 19: "The Inheritance."
Baring Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. "The Mountain of Venus," p. 213.
Grimm, vol. ii. p. 366. "The Three Green Twigs."
Merényi, Tales from the Banks of the Danube, vol. ii. p. 7, in Hungarian.
There is an interesting Lapp variant, "Fattiggutten, Fanden og Guldbyen." Friis, p. 161.
[THE LAMB WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Kriza, ix.]
Cf. Round the Yule Log. "Hans, who made the Princess laugh," p. 269.
Grimm, vol. ii. "The Jew among the Thorns," p. 97 and Notes, p. 410, in which the Jew is compelled to dance to the sound of the fiddler.
Engel's Musical Myths, vol. ii. "The Indefatigable Fiddler," p. 29, and the "Ratcatcher of Hamelin," p. 37. (Also, Baring Gould's Curious Myths, p. 417.)