190.—The Crumbs on the Table.
From the Swiss, communicated by W. Wackernagel in Haupt's Zeitschrift, 3. 36, 37.
192.—The Master-Thief.
Taken from a story picked up by Friedricb Stertzing in Thuringia, which is given in Haupt's Zeitschrift. Thieving tricks of this kind which are pardoned because of the clever stratagems by means of which they have been performed, are related in many different forms. For other stories belonging to this group, see Kuhn and Schwartz, p. 362; Wolf's Hausmärchen, p. 397; Zingerle, p. 300; Meier, No. 55; In Norwegian, Asbjörnsen, p. 218; and in Italian, Straparola, 1. 2. The well-known story in Herodotus, (2. 121) of the Egyptian king Rhampsinitus, whose treasure-chamber was robbed by the sons of his late architect, is nearly related to this. Information as to the different renderings of the story is to be found in Dunlop (see Liebrecht's translation, pp. 63, 64), also in Keller's introduction to the Sept Sages, cxciii., and in Bühel's Diocletian, p. 55. There is also an old Netherlandish poem, De deif van Brugghe, in Haupt's Zeitschrift, 5. 385–404.
192.—The Drummer.
From a story heard by K. Gödeke, in the Eichsfeld, which he has communicated to us. It ends much in the same way as one in Kuhn and Schwartz (No. 11, p. 347). The shirt found on the shore which is re-demanded during the night is the dress of a swan-maiden.
194.—The Ear of Corn.
From the Zeitschrift des Vereins für hessische Geschichte, 114. Compare Bechstein's Märchenbuch, p. 113, and Vonbun, p. 23.
195.—The Grave-mound.
From the Zeitschrift des Vereins für hessische Geschichte, vol. 4. There is another version from Hesse in Wolf's Zeitschrift, 1. 246, and one, which again differs, in Pröhle's Kindermärchen, No. 18.
196.—Old Rinkrank.
From the Frisian Archiv von Ehrentraut, 1. 162.
197.—The Crystal Ball.
After Friedmimd Arnim, p. 92. Another story, see Pröhle's Kindermärchen, No. 1, is more like the form of the story given by
