Note 7 — Chapter LXXX · (Vetála 6.)

Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology, p. 185, note, seems to refer to a similar story. He says, “The fastening of heads, that have been chopped off, to their trunks in Waltharius 1157 seems to imply a belief in their reanimation;” see also Schmidt’s Griechische Märchen, p. 111. So St. Beino fastened on the head of Winifred after it had been cut off by Caradoc; (Wirt Sikes, British Goblins, p. 348). A head is cut off and fastened on again in the Glücksvogel, Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, p. 108. In Coelho’s Portuguese Stories, No. XXVI, O Colhereiro, the 3rd daughter fastens on, in the Bluebeard chamber, with blood, found in a vase marked with their names, the heads of her decapitated sisters.