The Bellerophon story rests on a _donnee_ in _The Two Brothers_; the _Flight_ rests on another; _Cinderella_ reposes on a third; the giant with no heart in his body depends on a fourth; the _Milk-White Dove_ on the same; and these incidents occur in Hottentot, Bechuana, Samoyed, Samoan, as well as in Greek, Scotch, German, Gaelia Now, as all these incidents existed in Egyptian _marchen_ fourteen hundred years before Christ, they _may_ have been dispersed without Indian intervention. One of the white raiders from the Northern Sea may have been made captive, like the pseud-Odysseus, in Egypt; may have heard the tales; may have been ransomed, and carried the story to Greece or Libya, whence a Greek got it. Southwards it may have passed up the Nile to the Great Lakes, and down the Congo and Zambesi, and southward ever with the hordes of T'Chaka's ancestors. All these processes are possible and even probable, but absolutely nothing is known for certain on the subject. It is only as manifest as facts can be that all this might have occurred if the Indian peninsula _did not exist._ Another objection to the hypothesis of distribution from historic India is the existence of sagas or epic legends corresponding to marchen in pre-Homeric Greece. The story of Jason, for example, is in its essential features, perhaps, the most widely diffused of all.* The story of the return of the husband, and of his difficult recognition by his wife, the central idea of the _Odyssey_, is of wide distribution, and the _Odyssey_ (as Fenelon makes the ghost of Achilles tell Homer in Hades) is _un amas de contes de vieilles_. The Cyclops, the Siren, Scylla, and the rest,** these tales did not reach Greece from historic India at least, and we have no reason for supposing that India before the dawn of history was their source. * Custom and Myth, "A Far-Travelled Tale ". ** Gerland, Alt Griechische Marchen in der Odyssee.