l woman attended the wedding unseen by every one except
Abadeja. The young couple lived happily for many years.

Notes.

In another variant (c), "The Wonderful Tree," which was collected by
Mr. Rusk, and of which I have only an abstract,--

Maria's mother was drowned by the cruel husband, a fisherman, who
desired to marry another woman. The daughter was now ill-treated
by her step-mother, and often went to the seashore to talk with the
spirit of her dead mother. When the mother could no longer continue
the meetings with Maria, she told her to plant in a certain place
all the fins of all the fish the family should eat on a certain
day. From these fins there grew up a magic tree of gold and precious
stones. One day a prince, hearing the music made by the wind in the
magic tree, approached the tree and found the beautiful Maria. Later
he married her.

For still other Philippine variants of the Cinderella story, see
JAFL 19 : 265-272, where Fletcher Gardner gives two oral Tagalog
versions. In the same journal (29 : 226 f.) I have given synopses of
two Tagalog metrical romances which open with the Cinderella setting.

The Cinderella story is perhaps the most widespread Maerchen
in the world. See M. R. Cox's bibliographical study of it:
"Cinderella, 345 Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o' Rushes,
abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of medieval analogues,
and notes. London, 1893." Bolte-Polivka's notes to Grimm, No. 21,
examine Miss Cox's material from a somewhat new angle, and are very
useful for reference. It seems hardly necessary to attempt to add here
to those two exhaustive monographs. Attention may be called to the
fact, however, that our story of "Abadeja," which comes from Leyte,
presents a number of interesting items not found in the other Filipino
variants: e.g., (1) the task of washing a black handkerchief white,
and vice-versa; (2) the magic tree growing up from the feet of a
wonderful chicken given the heroine by the mysterious woman; (3) the
unusual device for providing a rich husband for the heroine. There
are some slight resemblances between these last two details and
corresponding incidents in Mr. Rusk's variant "The Wonderful Tree."

TALE 46

JUAN THE POOR.

Narrated by Dolores Zafra, a Tagalog from Pagsanjan, who heard this
story from her grandfather.

Many years ago there lived a king who was always sad. He used to go to
a mountain and climb the highest tree that was g