who
would a-wooing go is clearly a variant of this, and has thus a sure
pedigree of three hundred years; _cf._ "Frog husband" in my List of
Incidents, or notes to "The Well of the World's End" (No. xli.).

LXXIX. LITTLE BULL-CALF

_Source._--_Gypsy Lore Journal_, iii., one of a number of tales told "In
a Tent" to Mr. John Sampson. I have respelt and euphemised the bladder.

_Parallels._--The Perseus and Andromeda incident is frequent in
folk-tales; see my List of Incidents _sub voce_ "Fight with Dragon."
"Cheese squeezing," as a test of prowess, is also common, as in "Jack
the Giant Killer" and elsewhere (Koehler, _Jahrbuch_, vii., 252).

LXXX. THE WEE WEE MANNIE

_Source._--From Mrs. Balfour's old nurse. I have again anglicised.

_Parallels._--This is one of the class of accumulative stories like _The
Old Woman and her Pig_ (No. iv.). The class is well represented in these
isles.

LXXXI. HABETROT AND SCANTLIE MAB

_Source._--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, pp. 258-62 of
Folk-Lore Society's edition. I have abridged and to some extent
rewritten.

_Parallels._--This in its early part is a parallel to the _Tom Tit Tot_,
which see. The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the
Grimms' _Spinners_.

_Remark._--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the
spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me.

LXXXII. OLD MOTHER WIGGLE WAGGLE

_Source._--I have inserted into Halliwell's version one current in Mr.
Batten's family, except that I have substituted "Wiggle-Waggle" for
"Slipper-Slopper." The two versions supplement one another.

_Remarks._--This is a pure bit of animal satire, which might have come
from a rural Jefferies with somewhat more of wit than the native writer.

LXXXIII. CATSKIN

_Source._--From the chap-book reprinted in Halliwell I have introduced
the demand for magic dresses from Chambers's _Rashie Coat_, into which
it had clearly been interpolated from some version of Catskin.

_Parallels._--Miss Cox's admirable volume of variants of _Cinderella_
also contains seventy-three variants of _Catskin_, besides thirteen
"indeterminate" ones which approximate to that type. Of these
eighty-six, five exist in the British Isles, two chap-books given in
Halliwell and in Dixon's _Songs of English Peasantry_, two by Campbell,
Nos. xiv. and xiv_a_, "The King who Wished to Marry his Daughter," and
one by Kennedy's _Fireside Stories_, "The Prince