Note 163 — Appendix. VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III. (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation
Dr. W. Grimm, in the notes to his “Kinder und Hausmärchen,” referring to the German form of the story (which we shall come to by-and-by), says, “The Parrot, which is the fourth story in the Persian Touti Nameh, bears some resemblance to this”—the Parrot is the reciter of all the stories in the collection, not the title of this particular tale.