Note 6 — Chapter LXIX

Cp. Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, p. 15, Giles’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, p. 294, and the classical legend of the birth of Adonis. A similar story will be found in Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 306. In Bernhard E. Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, No. 5, three maidens come out of a citron, and one of them again out of a rosebush. For other parallels see the Notes to No. XXI, in Miss Stokes’s Indian Fairy Tales. Cp. also Das Rosmarinsträuchlein in Kaden’s Unter den Olivenbäumen, (Stories from the South of Italy), p. 10. In the 49th Story of the Pentamerone of Basile a fairy comes out of a citron. The word I have translated “tear” is in the original vírya. See Rohde, Der Griechische Roman, p. 195, and Ralston’s Tibetan Tales, Introduction, p. lii.