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Page 393. Add to note* See also the romance of Parthenopex of Blois in
Dunlop's History of Fiction, (Liubrucht's translation, p. 17-J).
Page 465. Add to note * See also Bartsch's Sagen, Miirchen und Gebrauche aus Meklenburg, Vol. II, p. 313, and Birlingcr, Aus Schwaben, pp. 374 378, and 404. For similar superstitions in ancient Greece see Jebb's Characters of Thoophrastus, p. 163, "The superstitious man, if a weasel run across his path, will not pursue his walk until some one else has traversed the road, or until he has thrown three stones across it. When he sees a serpent in his house, if it be the red snake, he will invoke Sabazius, if the sacred snake, he will straightway place a shrine on the spot * * * If an owl is startled by him in his walk, he will exclaim " Glory be to Athene !" before he proceeds." Jebb refers us to AT. Eccl. 792.
Page 480. Add to note t The same is asserted by Palladius of the trees in the island of Taprobane, where the Makrobioi live. The fragment of Palladius, to which I refer, begins at the 7th Chapter of the Illrd book of the History of the Pseudo- Callisthenes edited by Carolus Mueller.
Page 499. Add to note t Kuhn in his "Herabkunft des Feuers" traces this story back to the S'atapatha Brahmana.
