in the coffin, so that the person may "enter heaven perfect!" A baby's hair and nails must not be cut until it is a year old, or else it will be a thief. Hair must not be cut when the moon is waning. It is also said that ague can be cured by hanging a lock of hair on a willow tree.[1]
Page 223. The witch wishes to get rid of the deer, in the same way that the gipsy does the golden duck, ante p. 215. Cf. Stokes's Indian Fairy Tales: "The Pomegranate King," p. 10; "Phulmáti Rání," p. 4; The Jackal and the Kite, p. 22; " The Bel-Princess," p. 144; and Notes, pp. 245253. Gubernatis, vol. i., p. 412, and vol. ii., p. 31.
Page 223. In the Lapp Story, "Pigen fra Havet." Friis, No. 8,[2] A child is brought down to the sea-shore to bring mother back; and in the Finnish story, "Ihmeelinen Koiwu," The Wonderful Birch, the child's cry brings mother back, just as the little deer's lament in this tale reaches the sister's ears at the bottom of the well.
In this Finnish tale the mother replies, and says to the reindeer, which are feeding near:
"Reindeer! Keindeer! feeding in the swamp,
Come and take care of your child!
Come and see the child you have borne!
For the witch's daughter has neither food nor drink,
And cannot quiet its cries."
See also Finnish, "Maid who rose out of the sea."
Grimm, "The lambkin and the little fish," and notes.
Pentamerone, "The two cakes." Theal, Kaffir Folk-Lore, "The story of Tangalimlibo," p. 61.
Page 223. Creatures inside others.
Cf. Theal, Kaffir Folk-Lore, "The story of the cannibal mother,"
- ↑ There is a curious tale of a relation of my own who was popularly said to be able to cure people of ague by going to a thorn and shaking while she said: " Shake, good tree, shake for So-and-so," and then the disease fled. I have heard that the good old dame was herself always very ill after this operation. The hanging of a lock of hair on a tree, I presume, was understood to be the same as taking the afflicted person to the tree.
- ↑ f See also another Lapp tale, "Haccis Ædne." Notes and Queries, 7th s. ii. Aug. 7, 1886.
