Note 37 — Chapter XVIII

Cp. the way in which Torello informs his wife of his presence in Boccacio’s Decameron Xth day Nov. IX. The novels of the Xth day must be derived from Indian, and probably Buddhistic sources. There is a Buddhistic vein in all of them. A striking parallel to the 5th Novel of the Xth day will be found further on in this work.

Cp. also, for the incident of the ring, Thorpe’s Yuletide Stories, p. 167. See also the story of Heinrich der Löwe, Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. I, pp. 21 and 22. Cp. also Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, pp. 365 and 432, Coelho’s Contos Populares Portuguezes, p. 76; and Prym und Socin’s Syrische Märchen, p. 72. See also Ralston’s Tibetan Tales, Introduction pp. xlix and 1.