[54] In 1881 I read a paper before the Folklore Society on "Some Incidents in the story of the Three Noodles by means of reference to facts," _Folklore Record_, iv. 211, and in 1883 I published in the _Antiquary_, two papers on "Notes on Incidents in Folk-tales," based upon the same idea. [55] Introduction, p. lxix. [56] Introduction, p. lxxvii. [57] Page 12. [58] _Ibid._, p. 26. [59] _Ibid._, p. 5. [60] _Tales of the Highlands_, i. p. 251. [61] Kennedy, _loc. cit._, p. 77. [62] _Ibid._, p. 90. [63] See Beda, _Hist. Ecclesia_, lib. i. cap. 25. [64] See vol. i. p. 253. [65] Miss Frere's _Old Deccan Days_, p. 279. [66] Ælian, _Var. Hist._, lib. xiii. cap. xxxiii. [67] _Folklore Record_, vol. iv. p. 57. [68] _Asiatic Researches_, xvii. p. 502. [69] _Folklore Record_, vol. iii. p. 284. [70] Campbell's _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_, i. 308. [71] Joyce, _Old Celtic Romances_, 38, 75, 153, 177, 270. In the _Silva Gadelica_, by Mr. Standish O'Grady, the assembly is described sitting in a circle, vol. ii. p. 159, and Tara is also described, vol. ii. 264, 358, 360, 384. [72] Miss Cox's admirable study and analysis of the Cinderella group of stories includes the Catskin variants, which number seventy-seven.--_Cinderella_, pp. 53-79. [73] _Studies in Ancient History_, p. 62. [74] Sproat's _Scenes and Studies of Savage Life_, p. 96. [75] See his _Early Hebrew Life_, p. 85. [76] Frazer, _Adonis, Attis, and Osiris_, 27-28. [77] Todd and Herbert, _Irish Version of Nennius_, p. 89. [78] _Indian Antiq._, iii. 32. [79] _Laws of Manu_ (Bühler), ix. 127; _Apastamba Gautama_ (Bühler), xxviii. 18. [80] Sir Henry Maine in his _Early Law and Custom_, p. 91. [81] A most remarkable instance of an actual case of running away from a marriage, resulting in adventures which might easily become folk-tale adventures if the story were once started on its traditional life, is to be found in Shooter's _Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country_, pp. 60-71. [82] _West Highland Tales_, vol. i. p. lxix. [83] Kennedy's _Fireside Stories of Ireland_, p. 64. [84] _Old Deccan Days_, p. 52. [85] _Ibid._, p. 233. [86] "Standing-place." [87] _Journ. Ethnol. Soc._, _loc. cit._ [88] _New Statistical Account of Scotland_, xiv. 273. [89] Ure's _Agriculture of Kinross_, 57. [90] _Archæologia_, l. 195-214. [91] Du Chaillu's _Land of the Midnight Sun_, i. 393. [92] Tupper, _Punjab Customary Law_, ii. 188. [93] _Cobden Club Essays--Primogeniture._ [94] Morris, _Saga Library_, ii. 194. [95] _Journ. Ethnol. Soc._, ii. 336. [96] Elton, _Origins of English History_, 91; _cf._ Du Chaillu, _Land of the Midnight Sun_, i. 393; Morris's _Sagas_, ii. 194. [97] Breeks, _Hill Tribes of India_, 108. [98] Mavor's _Collection of Voyages_, iv. 41. [99] _Anecdotes and Traditions_ (Camden Soc.), 85. [100] _Mythologie der Volkssagen und Volksmärchen._ [101] Geiger, _Hist. Sweden_, 31, 32. [102] Elton, _Origins of English History_, 92.