Note 23 — 268

The cutting off the hair from a woman substituted occurs in the fabliau ‘Des Tresces,’ Barbazan et Méon, IV, 393, Montaiglon et Raynaud, IV, 67, and Méon, Nouveau Recueil, I, 343, Montaiglon et Raynaud, V, 132 (a different version); Boccaccio, Decameron, VII, 8; ‘Der verkêrte Wirt,’ von der Hagen’s Gesammtabenteuer, II, 337, No 43: all varieties of one story. See also ‘Der Reiger,’ p. 157 of the same volume of von der Hagen, No 31, and the literary history of No 43, at p. XLII.—Bédier, Les Fabliaux, p. 149 ff., refers to several other examples.