and Malayan for "louse."

[44] Perhaps from the Spanish conocer ("to know, understand"). For
the names of the other companions, see footnotes to the preceding tale.

[45] In Spanish this word means "witch, sorceress."

[46] Whether or not these powers reside in the men themselves,
who have acquired them through practice, or in magic objects which
they find or are presented with. Benfey (loc. cit., p. 969) makes
two distinct cycles on an entirely different basis from mine, both
derived from India: the one telling of the extraordinary endowments
of men; the other, of extraordinary properties of objects (i.e.,
magic objects). It seems to me a mistake, however, to make a cycle
of this second group, for magic articles are only machinery in a
story. A family of folk-tales cannot turn merely on things; the magic
objects are only latently powerful until guided and controlled by
the human hero.

[47] For example, "The Grateful Dead," "John the Bear," "The Child
and the Hand," "The Ransomed Woman," etc.

[48] The most recent investigation of this cycle that I know of is that
of W. E. Farnham in connection with the sources of Chaucer's "Parlement
of Foules" (in Publications of the Modem Language Association, 32 :
502-513 [1917]). Dr. Farnham has named the cycle "The Contending
Lovers," the stories of which, he says, fall into six clearly marked
types. My discussion of the cycle may require some modification in
the light of his study; but I have printed it here as I wrote it,
some two years before Dr. Farnham's article came to my notice.

[49] For practically this identical judgment, see the Dsanglun
(St. Petersburg, 1843), p. 94 (cited by Benfey, 1 : 396, note 2).

[50] Tag. for "rich."

[51] Tag. for "poor."

[52] A native dug-out or canoe.

[53] A Spanish word meaning "a woman who keeps a little shop or store
[tienda]."

[54] Canamo, ordinarily a kind of coarse cloth made from hemp. Here
the word probably means the thread from which hempen ropes are made.

[55] Darak, "bran, shorts, chaff."

[56] Mungo. a small legume about the size and shape of a lentil. Same
as mongo.

[57] Carreton, a heavy two-wheeled springless cart drawn by a carabao.

[58] Hacienda, a ranch of considerable extent. The fact of Pedro's
living at some distance from the doctor might account for the success
of the ruse.

[59] Chupa, a measure, equal roughly to about four handfuls of
raw rice.

[60] Camotes, sweet potatoes.

[61] Mongo,