Dealing with a venerable Suffolk version of Grimm's well-known 'Rumpelstiltskin,' Mr. Clodd endeavours to show that the main incident in the story contains a world-wide and much-varied superstition, which, confusing persons and things, has given rise to a set of curious beliefs and customs.
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