bscot and
Maliseet, which open with the obtaining of a gold-dropping horse
from an old man because of kindness, the loss of it at an inn at the
bands of a rascally landlord, and the recovery of the animal through
the generous use of a magic cudgel. The remainder of the two stories
is connected with the last part of the "Golden Goose" cycle (Grimm,
No. 64).

Page 237. To the East Indian variants of this story add Parker,
No. 97 (2 : 101-104), in which an indigent man who frightens a Yaka
obtains from the demon a magic self-filling plate, a ring which when
sold will always return to its owner, and a gold-dropping cow. These
are stolen from him on successive days by a Hettiyae, and worthless
imitations substituted. Then the Yaka gives the hero a magic cudgel,
with which he regains his magic articles. (See Parker, ibid., 104-105,
for other Oriental versions.)

29.

Page 247. A Sinhalese story, "The Mouse Maiden" (Parker, 1 : 308 f.,
No. 54), tells of a princess in the form of a mouse who was married
to a prince. Her permanent disenchantment is brought about by the
burning of her mouse-jacket. Similarly in No. 223 (Parker, 3 : 187-188)
the youngest of seven princes is married to a female hare, which is
permanently disenchanted when her husband burns her hare-skin. This
story and another cited by Parker, in which the youngest of seven
princes married a female monkey who in the end proved to be a fairy
and took off her monkey-skin (Chilli: Folk Tales of Hindustan, 54),
appear to be related to the Indian Maerchen cited by Benfey (1 : 251).

For other tales of animal-marriages with transformation, see Parker,
Nos. 151, 207 (turtle), No. 163 (snake), No. 164 (lizard), No. 165
(frog); without transformation, No. 158 (bear), No. 159 (leopard).

30.

A Sinhalese variant of the "Chastity-Wager" story is Parker, No. 149
(2 : 334-336).

33.

In a French-Canadian version (JAFL 32 : 161-163), while a jealous
hunchback is away from home, three other hunchbacks (unrelated to
the husband) apply to the wife for food. While they are eating, she
sees her husband returning. She hides her three guests in a chest,
where they are smothered. The remainder of the story is regular.

35.

Page 278. Our story appears to be related to some of the variants of
Grimm, No. 22, though there is little resemblance between it and the
German story itself. Compare, however, an Ojibwa tale (JAFL 29 : 337),
in which a princess is offered in marriage