[58] As late as 1875, a farmer near Mariestad buried a cow alive, upon disease breaking out in his herd. See also Contemporary Review, Feb. 1878, "Field and Forest Myths," p. 528, "Within the last few years, at least one Russian peasant has been known to sacrifice a poor relation in hopes of staying an epidemic."
[59] I heard this story again the other day in South Lincolnshire.
[60] Remains of a Roman camp near Brocklesby.
[61] Vide A History of the County of Lincoln. By the author of The Histories of London, Yorkshire, Lambeth, &c. &c. London and Lincoln: John Saunders gent., 1834.
[62] Boswell's Variorum Edition of Shakespeare, vii. pp. 162, 163.
[63] "Prince Unexpected." Folk Lore Record, 1884, p. 10.
[64] Cf. Lion Bruno. Folk Lore Record, 1878, p. 209.
[65] See Ralston's "Beauty and the Beast" in The 19th Century, December, 1878.
[66] In "The Raksha's Palace" in the same work, p. 203, the young princess found "the skeleton of a poor old beggar-woman, who had evidently died from want and poverty. The princess took the skin and washed it, and drew it over her own lovely face and neck, as one draws a glove on one's hand."
[67] The giant who demands human flesh of his wife, and the giantess who has only one eye in the middle of her forehead, are proofs of the foreign origin of this tale.