THE YOUNGEST PRINCE, AND THE YOUNGEST PRINCESS. Erdélyi, ii. 5.
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Page 137. Good luck coming from being under a tree. Cf. p. 323 in this collection; and Rink, Eskimo Tales, "Kagsagsuk," p. 101. Stokes, Indian Tales, "The Fan Prince," p. 198, and "The Bed," p. 204. Pentamerone, "The Raven."
Page 138. Old one who helps. Vernaleken, In the Land of Marvels, "The Three Tasks," p. 226, and "Piping Hans," p. 221. S. ja T. "Maan, meren kulkija laiwa" (a ship which can sail on land and sea), vol. ii. p. 22, and "Ihmeellinen Sauwa" (the wonderful stick), ib. vol. i. p. 158. In Vicram Maharajah, Old Deccan Days, p. 101, the parents of Anar Ranee caused her garden to be hedged round with seven hedges made of bayonets, so that none could go in or out, and published a decree that none should marry her but he who could enter the garden and gather the three pomegranates in which she and her maids slept.
Page 139. The horse incident. Cf. Trojan horse, also Gubernatis, vol. i. p. 336. Geldart, Folk-Lore of Modern Greece, "The Golden Steed," p. 98.
Page 140. The marks of moon and stars. In Payne, vol. ii. p. 163, we read, that an old woman was taken "for a man of the flower of God's servants, and the most excellent of devotees, more by token of the shining of her forehead for the ointment with which she had anointed it." S. ja T. vol. i. p. 105, "Tynnyrissä kaswanut Poika" (a boy who grew in a barrel) p. 337, ante. Stokes Indian Fairy Tales, "a boy who had a moon on his forehead, and a star on his chin," p. 119. Denton, Serbian Folk Lore, "The Shepherd and the King's daughter," p. 173.