[35] This story is to be found in divers places, the Talmud included. [↑]
[36] The story of the suitors whom Viśākhā shut up in chests and put to shame occurs as a folk-tale in Miss Maive Stokes’s “Indian Fairy Tales,” No. 28, “The Clever Wife.” [↑]
[37] See Gubernatis, “Zoological Mythology,” ii. 311. [↑]
[38] A good account of the story is given by Sir George Cox in his “Mythology of the Aryan Nations,” i. 111–121. [↑]
[39] “Ueber einige morgenländische Fassungen der Rhampsinit Sage,” in the “Bulletin” of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, tom. xiv. pp. 299–315. [↑]
[40] “Contes populaires de l’Égypte Ancienne.” Paris, 1882. Pp. xxxvii–xli. [↑]
[41] Sakellarios, “Cypriaques,” iii., p. 157. Quoted by M. Émile Legrand in his “Recueil de Contes populaires grecs.” Paris, 1881. Pp. 205–216. [↑]
[42] “Kathá Sarit Ságara,” book x. chap. lxiii. The story occurs in vol. ii. part 7, of Mr. Tawney’s translation. Calcutta, 1881. [↑]
[43] J. F. Campbell’s “Tales from the West Highlands,” No. 18, on which see the exhaustive notes by Reinhold Köhler in “Orient und Occident,” ii. 303. [↑]
[44] For a full account of “swan-maidens” and the mediæval romance of “The Knight of the Swan,” see Baring Gould’s “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.” [↑]