"My rose I will not marry you
Until there are no fish in the lake,
And as there always will be
Cf. You see, my rose, I cannot marry you."
[76] The waters of the two rivers flow into the Theiss, this into the Danube, and the Danube into the Black Sea.
[77] Baron Orbán's Székelyland.
[78] Bishop Arnold Ipolyi, Magyar Mythology.
[79] Ladislaus Köváry, Historical Antiquities.
[80] In consequence of the Turkish rule over Hungary. Buda was 157 years in the hands of the Turks.
[81] Vide Baron Orbán, Székelyland.
[82] One must be careful not to confound, as many writers do, the witches of fairy tales, with the old women who are designated as witches by the common people.
[83] Cf. Many Lincolnshire and Yorkshire tales.
[84] Cf. Rancken, "Purmo" 27, and "Munsala," 25.