Note 42 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
Reading edition
This tale embodies a number of incidents which constantly appear in the folk-tales. We have the gambling match in the Mahâbhârata and in the tale of Nala and Damayantî, as well as in the Celtic legend of the young king of Easaidh Ruadh.42 The magic sword and the various fidelity tests appear both in the folk-tales of the East and West.