Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

77. Sweet William's Ghost

P. 228, note †. Add: Zingerle, in Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, II, 147.

229. C is translated by Pröhle, G.A. Bürger, Sein Leben u. seine Dichtungen, p. 106.

P. 228 f., 233, 239, III, 514, IV, 474. Of the succession of three cocks, white, red, black (reduced to two in English ballads), see R. Köhler, Der weisse, der rothe und der schwarze Hahn, Germania, XI, 85-92. [So in the tale 'L'Andromède et les Démons,' Georgeakis et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 82 f.]

228, note †. Two or three additions in Böhme's Erk, I, 598 ff., No 197, c, d, g.

To be Corrected in the Print.

234 a, 5th line, larf is dropped in Herd II.

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