[49] Untersuchungen zur Erläuterung der ältesten Geschichte Russlands. St. Petersburg. 1806.
[50] Loc. cit.
[51] Cf. Hunfalvy Pál, Magyarország Ethnographiája. Budapest. 1876. chap. 41.
[52] Notes and Queries, 7th S. ii. pp. 110, 111.
[53] Cf. also, Folk-Lore Record. 1879, p. 121; Gesta Romanorum, "The Knight and the Necromancer;" Records of the Past, vol. i. p. 136. "Tablet V."; Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, p. 302; and Leland, The Gipsies, p. 159, where we are told gipsies object to having their photographs taken unless you give them a shoe-string.
[54] Magyar Népmeséinkröl in the Kisfaludy Társaság évlapjai. New Series iv. p. 146.
[55] A Worcestershire woman told the writer that she had a nephew born with a caul, and when he was at the point of death it became quite moist.
[56] The Csángós are Magyar settlers in Moldavia; they are now assisted to return to Hungary by the Government. This story is told of the feud between two races. There are others which strike off the characteristics of neighbouring races, such as the story of the angels, current in Hungary, which is as follows:—
When Adam and Eve fell, God sent Gabriel, the Magyar angel, to turn them out of the garden of Eden. Adam and his wife received him most courteously, and most hospitably offered him food and drink. Gabriel had a kind heart, and took pity on them. He was too proud to accept any hospitality from them, as he did not consider it quite the right thing. So he returned to the Deity, and begged that somebody else should be sent to evict the poor couple, as he had not the heart to do it. Whereupon Raphael, the Roumanian angel, was sent, who was received and treated by Adam and Eve in like manner. He, however, was not above a good dinner, and having finished, he informed the couple of the purpose of his coming. The two thereupon began to cry, which so mollified Raphael that he returned to his Master, and begged Him to send some one else, as he could not very well turn them out after having enjoyed their hospitality. So Michael, the German angel, was sent, and was treated as the others. He sat down to a sumptuous meal, and when the last morsel of food had disappeared, and the last drop of liquor was drained, he rose from the table, and, addressing the host and hostess said, "Now then, out you go!" and the poor couple, though they cried most pitifully and begged hard to be allowed to remain, were cruelly turned out of the garden of Eden. See Arany's collection.
[57] The mound was opened in 1870, and found to contain bones.