[53] In Campbell the finger is lost in climbing the tree to get the magpie’s nest; but, as here, the bride is recognised by the loss of it.
[54] In “Auburn Mary” the hero has to catch a young filly, “with an old, black, rusty bridle.”—Campbell, Vol. I., p. 55.
[55] See below for a second marriage. In Campbell, p. 37, there is a double marriage.
[56] In Campbell, p. 55, “Auburn Mary,” there is the same “talking spittle.”
[57] Cf. “Truth’s Triumph,” in “Old Deccan Days;” and Campbell, pp. 33, 34; and supra, “Ezkabi-Fidel,” pp. 113, 114.
[58] Campbell, pp. 34 and 56.
[59] In Campbell, it is an old greyhound that kisses him, but with the same result, pp. 34 and 56.
[60] In one of Campbell’s “Variations,” pp. 51, 52, the ending is something like this. In more than one, the hero marries another bride in his period of oblivion.
[61] Cf. Campbell’s “The Chest,” Vol. II., p. 1. The tales seem almost identical.
[62] The usual term for “the Pope;” the French, “Le Saint-Père.”