* Russian Folk-Tales, 109. ** In Norse, Asbjornsen and Moe, 36; Dasent, 9. Gaelic, Campbell, i. 4, p. 81. Indian, "Punchkin," Old Deccan Days, pp. 13-16. Samoyed, Castren, Ethnol. Varies liber die Altaischen Volker., p. 174. *** Bleek, Reynard the Fox of South Africa, p. 57. **** Dawson, Australian Aborigines, p. 36, 1881. The stick used is the "throwing stick" wherewith the spear is hurled,(6) The elder brother goes home and kills his wife. The gods pity the younger Bitiou in the Valley of Acacias, and make him a wife. M. Cosquin has found in France the trait of the blood that boils in the glass when the person concerned is in danger. (7) The three Hathors come to her creation, and prophesy for her a violent death. For this incident compare Perrault's _The Sleeping Beauty_ and Maury's work on _Les Fees_. The spiritual midwives and prophetesses at the hour of birth are familiar in _märchen_ as Fairies, and Fates, and Mæræ. (8) The river carries a tress of the hair of Bitiou's wife to the feet of Pharaoh's washermen; the scent perfumes all the king's linen. Pharaoh falls in love with the woman from whose locks this tress has come. For this incident compare _Cinderella_. In Santal and Indian _märchen_ a tress of hair takes the place of the glass-slipper, and the amorous prince or princess will only marry the person from whose head the lock has come. Here M. Cosquin himself gives Siamese, Mongol, Bengali (Lai Behar Day, p. 86), and other examples of the lock of hair doing duty for the slipper with which the lover is smitten, and by which he recognises his true love. (9) The wife of Bitiou reveals the secret of his heart. The people of Pharaoh cut down the acacia tree. (10) His brother reads in the turbid beer the death of Bitiou. He discovers the heart and life in a berry of the acacia. It is superfluous to give modern parallels to the various transformations of the life of Bitiou. He becomes an Apis bull, and his faithless wife desires his death, and wishes to eat his liver, but his life goes on in other forms. This is merely the familiar situation of the ass in _Peau d'Ane_ (the ass who clearly, before Perrault's time, had been human). _Demandez lui la peau de ce rare animal!_ In most traditional versions of _Cinderella_ will be found examples of the beast, once human, slain by an enemy, yet potent after death. This beast takes the part given by Perrault to the fairy godmother. The idea is also familiar in Grimm's _Machandelboom_ (47), and was found by Casalis among the Bechuanas. (11) The wicked wife obtains the bull Apis's death by virtue of a _hasty oath_ of Pharaoh's (_Jephtha, Herodias_). (12) The blood of the bull grows into two persea trees.