Note 22 — Chapter XXII
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
In the Sicilian stories of the Signora von Gonzenbach an ointment does duty for the amṛita, cp. for one instance out of many, page 145 of that work. Ralston remarks that in European stories the raven is connected with the Water of Life. See his exhaustive account of this cycle of stories on pages 231 and 232 of his Russian Folk-tales. See also Veckenstedt’s Wendische Sagen, p. 245, and the story which begins on page 227. In the 33rd of the Syrian stories collected by Prym and Socin we have a king of snakes and water of life.