[LUCK AND BLISS. Kriza, xii.]
Cf. Caballero's Spanish Tales, "Dame Fortune and Don Money," p. 190, and "Fortune and Misfortune," p. 147.
Naake, "Wisdom and Fortune," p. 243, a Bohemian tale.
[THE LAZY CAT. Kriza, xi.]
This tale does not call for any special remark.
[HANDSOME PAUL. Kriza, i.]
Page [25]. Old men in Hungary are always addressed as "my father," or "my elder brother," and in turn address their juniors as "my son," or "my younger brother." Women are also addressed as "mother," "daughter," "elder sister," or "younger sister." Cf. the "little father," in modern Russian; also Reynard the Fox in South Africa, by Dr. Bleek, "The Lion who took a Woman's Shape," p. 50, where the lion calls a woman "my mother" and "my aunt," and she calls him "my uncle."
Fisk, Myths and Myth-Makers, pp. 166, 167, Zulu Uthlakanyana meets a cannibal, whom he calls "uncle," and is called "child of my sister." The Yakuts in Siberia call the bear "beloved uncle."