Note 515 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. VOLS. I. AND II. (continued 2)

This is one of the innumerable parallels to the story of Jonah in the “whale’s” belly which occur in Asiatic fictions. See, for some instances, Tawney’s translation of the “Kathá Sarit Ságara,” ch. xxxv. and lxxiv.; “Indian Antiquary,” Sept. 1885, Legend of Ahlá; Miss Stokes’ “Indian Fairy Tales,” pp. 75, 76; and Steel and Temple’s “Wide-Awake Stories from the Panjáb and Kashmír,” p. 411. In Lucian’s “Vera Historia,” a monster fish swallows a ship and her crew, who live a long time in the extensive regions comprised in its internal economy. See also Herrtage’s “Gesta Romanorum” (Early English Text Society), p. 297.