[Footnote 20: Even in the popular mouth almost any formula may glide into almost any other, and there is actually a female Hop o' My Thumb in Aberdeenshire folklore. But Madame d'Aulnoy's seems a wanton confusion. The Aberdeen female _Hop o' My Thumb_ is _Malty Whuppy_, Folk Lore Journal, p. 68, 1884. For _Finette Cendron_, see _Nouveaux Contes des Fees_, par Madame D----, Amsterdam, Roger, 1708.] [Footnote 21: Paul de Saint Victor, _Hommes et Dieux_, p. 474.] [Footnote 22: _L'Histoire de Melusine_ (Barbin, Paris, 1698) is dedicated like _Histoires et Contes du Tems Passe_ to _Mademoiselle_. The author says, 'Si tost que la plus celebre des Fees a sceu que votre Altesse Royale avoit eu la bonte de donner de favourables audiences aux Fees du bas ordre, et qu'elle avoit pris quelque plaisir au recit de leurs avanteures,' she came forward and asked Mademoiselle to patronise her own. A burlesque 'Privilege en faveur des Fees dans ce temps ou l'on a tant d'engouement pour les Contes des Fees' ends the volume.] FAIRIES AND OGRES. The stories of Perrault are usually called 'Fairy Tales,' and they deserve the name more than most _contes_, except the artificial contemporary tales, because in them Fairies or Fees do play a considerable part. Thus there were seven Fairies, and an old one 'supposed dead or enchanted,' in the _Sleeping Beauty_. There is a Fairy Godmother in _Cinderella_, and, as will be shown in the study on _Cinderella_, she takes the part usually given, in traditional versions, to a cow, a sheep, or a dead mother who has some mystic connection with the beast. The same remarks apply to the Fairy Godmother in _Peau d'Ane_. She, too, does for the heroine what beasts do in purely popular European variants, and in analogous tales from South Africa. The fairies in _Riquet of the Tuft_ are of little importance, as the narrative is not really traditional, but of literary invention for the most part. The fairy in _The Two Wishes_ is not a fairy in the South African variants where divers magical or animal characters appear, nor can _Mother Holle_ in Grimm (24) be properly styled a fairy. Thus, of all Perrault's Fairies only the Fairies of the _Sleeping Beauty_ (repeated in _Riquet of the Tuft_) answer to Fairies as they appear in genuine popular traditions, under such names as Moirai, or Hathors, in ancient Greek, and Egyptian versions. These beings attend women in child-bed, as they attended Althea when she bore Meleager, and they predict the fortunes of the infant.