Note 7 — Chapter LXXXVI · (Vetála 12)
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
This part of the story may remind the reader of the story of Melusina the European snake-maiden: see Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. VI. It bears a certain resemblance to that of the Knight of Stauffenberg (Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. III.) Cp. also Ein Zimmern und die Meerfrauen, in Birlinger, Aus Schwaben, p. 7. Cp. also De Gubernatis, Zoological Mythology, Vol. II, p. 206. There is a slight resemblance in this story to the myth of Cupid and Psyche.