Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 503 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS. VOLS. I. AND II. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The trick of the clever Magyar in marking all the other sleepers as the king’s mother had marked himself occurs in the folk-tales of most countries, especially in the numerous versions of the Robbery of the King’s Treasury, which are brought together in my work on the Migrations of Popular Tales and Fictions (Blackwood), vol. ii., pp. 113–165.

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