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Journal,” vol. i. p. 251).

[213] ”Journ. Ethnol. Soc.” N. S., vol. ii. p. 26; Giles, _pa.s.sim_; Brauns, p. 388.

[214] ”Y Cymmrodor,” vol. v. p. 94.

[215] Map, Dist. ii. c. 11.

[216] Map, Dist. ii. c. 12.

[217] ”Y Cymmrodor,” vol. iv. p. 201. Nothing turns on the actual names in these stories; they have been evidently much corrupted,--probably past all recognition.

[218] Ibid. p. 189; vol. v. pp. 59, 66; vol. vi. p. 196.

[219] Pliny l. xvi. c. 95; Thorpe, vol. ii. pp. 275, 277; Stephens, p.

248, citing the ”Barzas Breiz.”

[220] The above paragraphs had scarcely been written when the London papers (June 1890) reprinted extracts from a letter in the _Vossische Zeitung_ relating the adventures of Dr. Bayol, the Governor of Kotenon, who was recently imprisoned by the bloodthirsty King of Dahomey. The king was too suspicious to sign the letter written in his name to the President of the French Republic. In all probability he was unwilling to let the President have his sign manual, for of course M. Carnot would have no hesitation in bewitching him by its means.

[221] Keightley, p. 121, quoting from Thiele; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 155.

[222] Ancient Laws and Inst.i.tutes of Wales (Public Record Comm., 1841) pp. 44, 252. (The Dimetian code was the one in force at Myddfai; but that of Gwynedd was similar in this respect.) Farrer, p. 256.

[223] Campbell, vol. iii. p. 403; Mac Innes, p. 211; Wratislaw, p. 314.

_Cf._ a similar story told by a peasant to Dr. Krauss' mother no longer ago than 1888, as having recently happened at Mrkopolje: he ”knew the parties!” (Krauss, ”Volksgl.” p. 107).

[224] Ellis, p. 208; Grinnell, p. 129.

[225] ”Choice Notes,” p. 96; _cf._ Jahn, p. 364, cited above, p. 279.

(Kennedy relates the story of the Lady of Inchiquin differently.

According to him the husband was never to invite company to the castle.

This is probably more modern than the other version. Kennedy, p. 282.) Keightley, p. 458, quoting the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xxii. Sir Francis Palgrave, though an accurate writer, was guilty of the unpardonable sin of invariably neglecting to give his authorities. Ibid.

p. 485, quoting Mdlle. Bosquet, ”La Normandie Romanesque.”

[226] ”Journal Amer. F. L.” vol ii. p. 137; vol. i. p. 76; Schneller, p.

210; ”Rosenol,” vol. i. p. 162; Child, vol. i. p. 337, quoting Schmidt and Apollodorus; ”Panjab N. & Q.,” vol. ii. p. 207. (In this form the story is found as a tradition, probably derived from the Mahabharata.) ”Trans. Aberd. Eistedd.” p. 225; White, vol. i. p. 126.

[227] Dennys, p. 140; ”Corpus Poet. Bor.” vol. i. p. 168; ”Katha-sarit-sagara,” vol. ii. p. 453, _cf._ p. 577; White, vol. i. p.

88; Schneller, p. 210; Robertson Smith, p. 50.

[228] Gill, p. 265.

[229] ”Indian N. & Q.” vol. iv. p. 147.

[230] ”Sacred Books of the East,” vol. xxvii. pp. 471, 475, 476; ”Indian N. & Q.” vol. iv. p. 147.

[231] Romilly, p. 134; Landes, p. 123.