p. 142; "The story of the glutton," p. 175; "The great chief of the animals," p. 177; and the Finnish story, "Seppo Ilmarisen Kosinta " (Smith Ilmarinen's courtship), where the smith, after being swallowed by Untamoinen, cuts his way out.
Stokes's Indian Fairy Tales, "Loving Laili," p. 76.
THE WONDERFUL FROG. Erdélyi, iii. 15.
My friend, Prof. Aug. Gittee, has kindly forwarded me a Flemish variant, "Van het Meisje dat met een Puits trouwde." "The tale of a girl who married a frog." See Volskunde Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Folklore, 1888, p. 48. Of. Grimm. "The Frog King and notes. Stokes, Indian Folk Tales, p. xvi. and " The Monkey Prince." Gubernatis. "The Frog." Max Müller, Chips from a German Workshop, vol. ii. p. 249. Cox. Mythology of the Aryan Nations. "Frog." Halliwell. Nursery Rhymes and Tales. "The maiden and the frog."[1] Dasent. Tales from the Norse. "Bushy Bride."
THE DEVIL AND THE RED CAP. Erdelyi, iii. 19.
Cf. Ralston, Russian Folk-Tales, "The Soldier and the Vampire," p. 314. Vernal eken. In the Land of Marvels. "How a Shepherd became rich."
- ↑ I have often had this tale told to me by my nurse when a child, and heard the following version a short time ago in Holderness, and was informed it had been told thus for ages: "There was a stepmother who was very unkind to her stepdaughter and very kind to her own daughter; and used to send her stepdaughter to do "all the dirty work. One day she sent her to the pump for some water when a little frog came up through the sink and asked her not to pour dirty water down, as his drawing-room was there. So she did not, and as a reward he said pearls and diamonds should drop from her mouth when she spoke. When she returned home it happened as he said; and the step-mother, learning how it had come about, sent her own daughter to the pump. When she got there
