Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

44. The Two Magicians

P. 400 a, II, 506 b, III, 506 b. French. W, 'J'ai fait une maîtresse,' Daymard, p. 51, Quercy. X, 'Margarideto,' Soleville, Chants p. du Bas-Quercy, p. 94.

Italian. Add to Tigri's rispetto: Vigo, Canti p. siciliani, 1870-74, No 1711, Pitrè, Studj di Poesia pop., p. 76; Casetti e Imbriani, C. p. delle Provincie meridionali, p. 187: all cited by d'Ancona, Poesia pop., p. 341.

400 b. Bohemian. Waldau, Böhmische Granaten, II, 75, No 107, dove, gun; fish, hook; hare, dog.

401 b. Tale in Curtin's Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland, pp. 152-6.

Cf. also Notes and Queries, 7th Series, IX, 101, 295; Clouston, Popular Tales and Fictions, I, 413 ff. (G.L.K.)

To be Corrected in the Print.

401 b, fourth paragraph, line 3 f. Read No 68, III, 117.

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