156. Gent.'s Mag., Feb. 1738, "Fryar's Ground."--_Spanish_, Maspons y Labrós, p. 92.--_French_, Celnart, p. 53, "Chateau du Corbeau;" "Je suis dans ton château, corbeau, et j'y serai toujours."--_German_, Meier, p. 98, "Ist der Kukuk zu Haus?" see No. 115, note. German games based on this idea are numerous. Vernaleken, p. 77, "The Black Man;" p. 62, "Dead man, arise;" p. 73, "Wassermannspiel." The child representing the Water-spirit lies in the dry bed of a brook and pretends to sleep. The rest approach to tease him, when he endeavors to seize one without leaving the brook or pit. The first so caught must assist him to capture the rest. The superstition about a treasure buried at the foot of the rainbow is also Swiss, see Lütolf, Sagen, etc., Von Lutzern, p. 384. 157. A variation of 156.--_German_, Meier, p. 121. Rochholz, p. 415. 158. _German_, Meier, p. 102, "Der Böse Geist." 159. _French_, Celnart, p. 365, etc.--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 52, etc. See Mannhardt, Germ. Myth., pp. 492-511, who gives twenty-three versions, including a Spanish (Catalan) one. He imagines, as usual, a good deal of mythology in the game. The mythologic character belongs, not to the details of the children's rounds, but to the cycle of traditions on which these are founded. The name in Suabia is "Prinzessin erlösen," "to disenchant the princess." 160. _Provençal_, Arbaud, ii. 207.--_French_, Puymaigre, p. 334. Bugeaud, i. 126. Tarbé, ii. 178. Of the following games played in Great Britain, and possessing European equivalents, we have not obtained American versions: (1.) Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 131, "Game of the Fox."--_German_, Rochholz, p. 44, "Fuchs aus dem Loche." Handelmann, p. 74.--_French_, Belèze, p. 27, "La Mère Garuche," also "Le Diable boiteux."--_Ancient Greek_, Pollux, ix. 121. (2.) Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 126, "The Poor Soldier."--_Spanish_, Maspons y Labrós, p. 86, mentioned A.D. 1605, Marin, i. 177. (3.) "The Wadds," Chambers, p. 124.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 432, No. 52. (4.) Chambers, p. 128, "The Craw."--_German_, Rochholz, p. 445, "Der Teufel an der Kette." (5.) Nurs. Rh., No. 323, "This is the Key of the Kingdom."--_German_, Handelmann, p. 39.--_French_, Celnart, p. 181.--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 88. Transcriber's Notes: Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were corrected. Punctuation normalized. Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed. Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_. Bold markup is enclosed in =equals=. Gesperrt markup is enclosed in +plus signs+. Greek text is transliterated and enclosed in #number signs#. Beginning with p. 236 several numbers were skipped in the original.