The passage in A 10-16, in which the mother, pretending 1 to be her daughter, repels the lover, and the daughter, who has dreamed that her lover had come and had been refused admittance, is told by her mother that this had actually happened, and sets off in pursuit of her lover, seems to have been adopted from No, 70. A very popular Italian ballad (Nigra, No, 2'-)) has some of the traits of 'The Mother's Malison,' parts being exchanged and the girl drowned.
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