[61] This reminds us of the help given to Hiawatha by the woodpecker during his fight with Megissogwun; but the one incident can hardly be copied from the other. _Hiawatha_ was published some years before the _Kalevipoeg_. [62] This is the only passage in the _Kalevipoeg_ in which one of the heroes of the _Kalevala_ is personally introduced. [63] Emptiness; probably the Contemptible One; a name often used for one of the principal demons. [64] The rock is still shown, bearing the imprints of the hero's fingers, each cleft large enough to hold a man. [65] This was the fate of Kullervo himself in the _Kalevala_. Orphans, for whom much sympathy is expressed, constantly appear in Esthonian tales. Compare p. 236 of the present volume. [66] We have a similar series of transformations (mouse, cat, dog, ass, buffalo) in the story of Noor Ed-Deen and Shes Ed-Deen in the _Thousand and One Nights_. [67] We meet with this big ox elsewhere in the _Kalevipoeg_ ( Canto 19 ), as well as in the _Kalevala_, Runo 20. [68] Old Hornie, the name of the ruler of Põrgu (Hell). [69] The word used for lion is " _lõwi_, " undoubtedly derived from the German. The Finns generally call the lion " _jalopeura_, " which also denotes the lynx. [70] Compare the story of the Gold Spinners. [71] We meet with a similar hat in other stories. Many Esthonians and Lithuanians still hide their nail-parings as carefully as possible, or else make a cross over them lest the devil should find them and use them to make a wishing-hat. Can this hat have any connection with the white straw hat of the devil in a Deptford rhyme?—Gomme's _Traditional Games_, I. p. 4. In the Edda, we are told that Naglfar, the largest ship in the world, which is to bring the giants to the fight at Ragnarök, is similarly constructed, and as both gods and men wish that it should be completed as late as possible, every one should be very careful not to die with unpared nails, lest he should supply materials for its construction.