th Jataka, No. 273, compare a Negro story from the
Bahamas (MAFLS 13 : 92, No. 45, II). Skinner (JAFL 32 : 295-297)
gives an Ojibwa story in which occurs the "drowning" of the turtle
and the biting-off of otter's testicles by the turtle. This second
detail appears reminiscent of the turtle's revenge discussed on our
pp. 372-373.

56.

Page 379. Some American versions of the house-answering-owner episode
are the following: Oaxaca (Radin-Espinosa, 184-185; 194, rabbit and
coyote; JAFL 25 : 208, rabbit and crocodile); Chile (JAFL 26 : 248,
a curious modification of the motif); Mexico (JAFL 29 : 552). In
another Mexican story we find the episode of the rabbit crossing the
river on the crocodile's back (JAFL 29 : 551-552).

In a Sinhalese story of "The Crocodile and the Jackal" (Parker,
1 : 380-381, No. 75), the crocodile shams dead. Jackal says, "In
our country dead crocodiles wag their tails." (This appears to me a
variant of the house-answering-owner motif.) Later follows the incident
of the seizure of the foot of the jackal, who pretends crocodile has
hold of a root. (See also Parker, No. 36 [1 : 235 f.] for deceptions
turtle practises on jackal.)

57.

Page 381. A Oaxaca story (Radin-Espinosa, 190, No. 94) combines
an account of a war between the animals and the winged creatures
(animals defeated) with a race between the lion and the cricket.

59.

American versions of the let-me-take-your-place motif are numerous:
Oaxaca (Radin-Espinosa, 121, 153, 183, 185, 197; JAFL 25 : 201, 236);
Mexico (JAFL 29 : 550); Tepecano (JAFL 27 : 162); Negro (JAFL 32 :
400, 402; MAFLS 13 : Nos. 12, 33, 39).

60.

The following American forms of the accumulative story may be noted:
Guatemala (JAFL 31 : 482-483); Mexico (JAFL 25 : 219 f.); Oaxaca
(Radin-Espinosa, 195, No. 99); New-Mexican Spanish (JAFL 27 : 138);
Tepecano (JAFL 27 : 175). See also Thompson, 453-454. The stories
resemble ours only in general method, not at all in detail. For
discussion and abstracts of some South American variants that are
closer to our form than are those of Central and North America,
see Boas (JAFL 25 : 352-353 and notes).

A curious Sinhalese accumulative story, No. 251 in Parker's collection
(3 : 336-338), tells how, when some robbers were apprehended for
digging into the king's palace and were sentenced, they replied that
the mason who made the walls was at fault, not they. The mason accused
his lime-mixer; the lime-mixer, a beautiful woma