ies lasted for two
days. The other two princesses were also married to kings' sons.

Notes.

There is a striking analogy between the opening of our story and that
of a Servian tale (Wuk, No. 5), where a Kaiser has three daughters
whom he rears in close confinement, but whom he permits one day, after
they have become of marriageable age, to dance the kolo. While they
are dancing, a storm blows up, and carries them all away. The rest of
the story is a variant of our No. 18, with which our present story,
too, has some points of contact.

For the magic articles secured by the hero from certain persons
quarrelling over them, and for the "Fee-fi-fo-fum" formula, see notes
to No. 18.

The hero's drinking a pail of magic water, and becoming so strong
that when he sits in an iron chair it breaks down under him, recalls
the similar feat of Strong Hans (Grimm, No. 166).

The three monsters of increasingly greater formidability--Seven-Heads,
Ten-Heads, Twelve-Heads--which are slain by the hero, who uses their
own Weapons on them, recall the underworld monsters killed by the
hero in the "Bear's Son" cycle (cf. our notes to No. 17).

Although the events of our story are located in the Philippines, the
Casiguran mentioned probably being the town in Tayabas on the west
toast of Luzon, the tale as a whole appears to have been imported. The
Sinucuan referred to is probably the famous legendary King of Pampanga,
of whom the Pampangans have a rich oral literature. He is said to
have lived on Mount Arayat. He figures in our No. 79 (b).

TALE 40

JUAN AND MARIA.

Narrated by Anicio Pascual of Arayat, Pampanga, who says, "This story
is often told by Pampangan grandmothers to their grandchildren. I have
heard it many times. Lately it was told to me again by an old woman."

Once there lived in a barrio an old beggar couple. They had a son named
Juan, and a daughter Maria. The proceeds from their begging were hardly
enough to support the family. One day, after the old man had returned
home from town, he ordered his wife to cook the rice that had been
given him. The old woman obeyed him. When he saw that the rice was
not enough for him and his wife and children, he angrily said to her,
"From now on, don't let me see our children in this house. Chase them
as far as you can, and let them find their own food." The old mother
wept when she heard the words of her cruel husband. She did not want
to be separated from her children;