Note 4 — Chapter LXXXIII · (Vetála 9.)

See note on Vol. I. p. 499, Liebrecht’s translation of the Pentamerone of Basile, Vol. II, p. 215, Herrtage’s edition of the English Gesta Romanorum, p. 55, the Greek fable of Teiresias, Waldau, Böhmische Märchen, p. 1. Cp. also Hagen’s Helden-Sagen, Vol. II, p. 24. We are told that Melampus buried the parents of a brood of snakes, and they rewarded him by licking his ears so that he understood the language of birds. (Preller, Griechische Mythologie, Vol. II, p. 474.)