Note 8 — Chapter LVI
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
Cp. Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, p. 358. “Great stress is laid in the skazkas and legends upon the terrible power of a parent’s curse. The hasty word of a father or mother will condemn even an innocent child to slavery among devils and when it is once uttered, it is irrevocable.” Throughout the present work curses appear to be irrevocable but susceptible of modification and limitation. See Waldau’s Böhmische Märchen, p. 537, and the remarks of Preller in his Griechische Mythologie, Vol. II, p. 345.