TABULATION OF FOLK-TALES.
Generic name of story.-(Not to be filled np.)
Specific name.-Les Petits Sonliers Rouges.
Dramatis personæ.-(1) Mother, (2) son, (3) daughter, (4) father, (5) bird, (6) the Blessed Virgin. Thread of story.-Mother has two children, boy and girl- sends them to gather faggots-promises the pair of little red slippers to the one that returns first. The forest reached, boy ties his sister to a tree-gathers wood- unties her, and then reaches home first and demands the slippers-they are granted-as he stoops to take them, mother lets sancepan-lid fall and cnt his head off-she puts him in the pot to make soup. Sister returns-asks for her brother' is told he is in the garden-vainly seeks him- is set to blow the fire to make the soup boil-she hears a voice from the pot 2-a bird on branch at the door tells her she is cooking her brother-she asks her mother for ex- planation, and is told to silence the bird with the broom- bird flies away. Soup being made, girl is sent with some to father in the forest- she meets the Blessed Virgin and is told to collect all the bones that her father throws from his soup 3-girl does so₁-takes them to B.V. who puts them together, and remakes the little brother.
Incidental circumstances.
1. That she may see him with the slippers on.
2. Saying twice, "Petit feu, ma petite sœur.
3. And if any go into the river, she is to go in after them.
4. Those in the river she collects without being drowned.
Where published.-Littérature Orale de la Haute-Bretagne, par Paul Sébillot. 1881. Paris. Pp. 223-225.
Nature of collection, whether:-
1. Original or translation. Original.
2. If by word of mouth, state narrator's name. Jeanne Bazul, of Trélivan.
3. Other particulars.
Special points noted by the Editor of the above.-See another version in Sébillot's Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne, No. 1x. Cf. Husson, Chaîne tradi- tionnelle, p. 19. There are other versions in French and German known.
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