Note 5 — Story of the Three Young Brahmans who Restored a Dead Lady to Life. (continued 2)

I have the text and a complete English paraphrase of a Tagalog metrical romance which combines incidents from this story with incidents from “The Adarna Bird” (supra). The romance is entitled “The Story of the Life of King Don Luis, his Three Sons, and Queen Mora. Manila 1906.” Retana (Nos. 4190, 4362) cites editions 1860–98 and 1902. This story contains the quest for the water of healing, the two hermits, the flight on the eagle’s back, the sleeping enchanted queen, the stolen favor and the theft of the slipper, the ransoming of the two older brothers, their treachery, the hero disguised as servant in his father’s palace, the invasion by the magic queen and her recovery of her lover the hero. This story is closely related to Groome No. 55. Compare also Groome’s summary of Vernaleken’s Austrian story of the “Accursed Garden” (p. 232), which in some respects resembles this Filipino romance more closely than does the Gypsy tale.