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ught in to smell two babes, one of which is a changeling. Every time he smells one he is quiet and licks it; but on smelling the other he is invariably restive and strives to kick it. The latter, therefore, is the changeling. (Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 177.) Sir John Maundeville also states that in Sicily is a kind of serpent whereby men assay the legitimacy of their children. If the children be illegitimate the serpents bite and kill them; if otherwise they do them no harm--an easy and off-hand way of getting rid of them! ("Early Trav." p. 155). [79] Campbell, vol. ii. p. 58; Chambers, p. 70. [80] Cromek, p. 246. [81] Bartsch, vol. i. p. 42; Sikes, p. 59, quoting from the "Cambrian Quarterly," vol. ii. p. 86; "Y Cymmrodor," vol. vi. p. 209; Arnason's "Icelandic Legends," cited in Kennedy, p. 89; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 174, quoting Thiele, "Danmark's Folkesagn samlede." See also Keightley, p. 125. [82] Fleury, p. 60; "Revue des Trad. Pop." vol. iii. p. 162. [83] Cf. _Boehmen-Gold_, Bartsch, vol. i. p. 22; _Boehmegold_, ibid. p. 47; _Boehmer Gold_, ibid. pp. 65, 79, and presumably p. 89; _Boehma gold_, Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 30; _Boehman gold_, ibid. p. 31; _boem un gold_ (timber and gold), ibid. p. 105; _Boem un holt_ (timber and wood), Jahn, p. 90; _Bernholt in den Wolt_ (firewood in the forest), and _Bremer Wold_, Muellenhoff, cited Grimm, "Tales," vol. i. p. 388. These variations while preserving a similar sound are suspicious. [84] Grimm, "Tales," vol. i. pp. 163, 388; Schleicher, p. 91; Fleury, p. 60; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 176; quoting Asbjoernsen, "Huldreeventyr," vol. ii. p. 165. _Cf._ Sebillot, "Contes Pop." vol. ii. p. 78. [85] Sikes, pp. 58, 59; Howells, p. 138; "Y Cymmrodor," vol. iv. p. 208, vol. vi. pp. 172, 204; Keightley, p. 436. [86] Croker, p. 65; "A Pleasant Treatise of Witches," p. 62, quoted in Hazlitt, "Fairy Tales," p. 372; Sebillot, "Contes," vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 157; Campbell, vol. ii. p. 47; "Revue des Trad. Pop." vol. iii. p. 162. _Cf._ a Basque tale given by Webster, where the Devil is tricked into telling his age (Webster, p. 58). [87] Simrock, p. 419. [88] Jahn, p. 89; Schleicher, p. 91. [89] "Choice Notes," p. 27; (this seems to have been a common prescription in Wales: see "Y Cymmrodor," vol. vi, pp. 175, 178; and in the Western Highlands: see Campbell, vol. ii. p. 64.) Brand, vol. ii. p. 335, note; (this seems also to be the case in some parts of
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