g the owner of the house and
asking him for assistance (Parker, 2 : 70-75, No. 90). In another tale
in the same collection, No. 57 (1 : 317-318), a gang of robbers steal
a devil-dancer's box. While they are sleeping, one of their number,
a fool, puts on the costume. They awake, think he is the Devil, and
flee, the fool pursuing and calling, "Stay there! stay there!" This
story is like our "Juan and the Robbers" (348-349). Compare also the
story cited by Parker on p. 318.

50.

Since writing the notes to No. 50, I have found a Sinhalese version of
the "Hat-pays-landlord" story which is essentially the same as ours,
only a three-cornered hat, not a painted one, is the hoax. The motive
of the hero's trick is his desire for revenge on three sharpers who
have cozened him out of a bull which they pretend is a goat (Parker,
3 : 200-205, No. 226). For this last situation, compare our No. 15
and notes.

53.

In the Sinhalese "Story of the Bitch" (Parker, 3 : 102-104, No. 201)
a bitch gives birth to two princesses, who marry princes. Later the
elder daughter drives her dog-mother away when it seeks to visit her,
but the younger treats it kindly. The elder daughter is killed by
a cobra-bite because of her avariciousness. This version is nearly
related to Miss Frere's old Deccan story.

54.

In the latter part of a long Sinhalese story (Parker, No. 145)
a king conceives a passion for the hero's wife, and resorts to the
same ruse as the wicked datu in our story,--underground tunnel, and
letter to parents in the underworld. The hero escapes by means of a
cross-tunnel, returns with marvellous raiment (provided by heroine)
and news that the king's father and mother are happy. The avaricious
king makes the same trip, and is destroyed. Parker, No. 146 (2 :
313-314), contains almost the identical situation.

55.

Page 371 (E). Probably the earliest literary version of the
drowning-turtle motif (undoubtedly the prototype of the brier-patch
punishment) is Buddhistic: Jataka, No. 543. This motif occurs in a
Sinhalese story otherwise wholly unrelated to the cycle of which
this punishment is usually a part (Parker, No. 150, 2 : 339-340;
see also 343-344).

For additional bibliography of the brier-patch punishment, in many
of the American Indian versions of which the turtle or tortoise is
substituted for the rabbit, see Thompson, 446-447; JAFL 31 : 229
(note). Thompson (440) also lists some American Negro variants.

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