, and kills her. Wyandot (Thompson, 423): The numskull hero hits
the head of a sleeping child to kill mosquito, and kills child. Ojibwa
(Laidlaw, 63): Flies on baby's head "killed" with rubber boot.

10.

Page 87. Add to the bibliography of the "Magic Ring" cycle three
American forms of the story,--French-Canadian, Micmac, and Maliseet
(analyzed by Thompson, 398-399).

An interesting Sinhalese version is Parker's No. 208 (3 :
127-131). Here a lazy prince buys a cobra, parrot, and cat. From the
snake-king he receives a ring by means of which he can create anything
he wants. He creates a palace and a princess. The princess and ring
are stolen by an old woman acting as agent for a king who came to know
of the beautiful princess (hair floating down-stream). Through the
aid of his faithful animals, especially the cat, which coerces the
king of the rats, the hero recovers his wife and magic object. (See
also Parker's extensive notes [131-135] for other Oriental versions.)

11.

Page 114. See Bolte-Polivka, 3 : 483-486, for notes on Grimm's fragment
"The Louse." Bolte and Polivka (3 : 84-85) give brief notes on Grimm,
No. 134, mostly in the nature of addenda to their notes on Grimm,
No. 71, with which this story is closely related.

Three American Indian variants of Grimm, No. 71, are analyzed by
Thompson (346-347).

For a Negro version from the Bahamas, see MAFLS 13, No. 20.

12.

Page 125, line 21. For "Diego and Juan" read "Diego and Pedro."

Page 128, note 3. Dr. Farnham presents a fuller and more recent study
of the cycle of the "Contending Lovers" in Publications of the Modern
Language Association, 28 (1920): 247-323.

Page 128. Full bibliographical treatment of our Type I, the "Creation
of Woman," may be found in Bolte-Polivka, 3 : 53-57.

Page 133. Bibliography of Grimm, No. 124, will be found in
Bolte-Polivka, 3 : 10-12; of Grimm, No. 129, ibid., 45-58. Bolte
and Polivka are of the opinion that Grimm, Nos. 71, 124, and 129,
are all related (3 : 45).

A New-Mexican Spanish variant of Grimm, No. 129 (JAFL 24 : 411-414),
tells of three brothers sent out to learn trades. One becomes a
carpenter; another, a silversmith; and the third, a thief. They are
tested by the king, who is satisfied that they have learned their
trades well. A Negro version from the Bahamas (MAFLS 13 : 43-44,
No. 23) tells of four brothers who went out and became skilled
(tailor, robber, thief, archer). Skill-test with egg (stealing