devour the sheep. The fox and hare are only spoken of as "game", and the latter during the hunting season must never be called "bad". It is unlucky to shoot the black woodpecker, and it is a bad omen should one be caught in a trap or a snare. So, too, to shoot a cuckoo, "the birds' priest", is to incur misfortune.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TOM-TIT-TOT.
To the Editor of Folk-Lore.
Sir,—With regard to the note of Mr. W. F. Kirby in Folk-Lore (vol. ii, p. 132), I would point out the following remark of E. Taylor to his translation of the Grimms' folk-tale, "Rumpelstitzchen" (which word he changed into "Rumpelstiltskin"): "We remember to have heard a similar story from Ireland, in which the song ran:
"'Little does my Lady wot
That my name is Trit-a-Trot.'"
I drew attention to this remark of Taylor's so long as 1870, in my notes to p. 81 of Gonzenbach's Sicilianische Märchen, which Mr. E. Clodd appears to have overlooked.
Weimar, March 14, 1891.
