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FURTHER CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA TO VOL. I. Page 7 line 29. " This boy will repeat by heart everything that he has heard once." It appears from an article in Melusine by A Bart, entitled An Ancient Manual of Sorcery, and consisting mainly of passages translated from Bumell's Samavidhana Brahmana, that this power can be acquired in the following way, " After a fast of three nights, take a plant of soma (Aiclepiat aeida ;) recite a certain formula and eat of the plant a thousand times, you will be able to repeat anything after hearing it once. Or bruise the flowers in water, and drink the mixture for a year. Or drink toma^ that is to say the fermented juice of the plant for a month. Or do it always." (Melusine, 1878, p. 107 ; II, 7, 4-7.) In the Milinda Panho, (Pali Miscellany by V. Trenckner, Part. I, p. 14,) the child Nagasena learns the whole of the three Vedas by hearing them repeated once. Page 12, line 16. " Every day when he awakes from sleep, a hundred gold pieces shall be found under his pillow." In one of Waldau's Bohmische Marchen, Vogelkopf nnd Vogelherz (p 90) a boy named Fortunat eats the heart of the Glucksvogel and under his pillow every day are found three ducats. See also Der Vogel Goldschweif in Gaal's Marchen der Magyaren, p. 195. Page 12, line 26. " Story of Brahmadatta." This story is, according to Dr. Rajendra Lai Mitra, found in a MS. called the Bodhisattra Avadana. (Account of the Buddhist Literature of Nepal, p. 63). Page 14. Add to footnote. We find a magic ring, brooch and cloth in No. XLI V of the English Gesta. See also Syrische Sagen und Marchen, von Eugen Prym und Albert Socin, p. 79, where there is a flying carpet. There is a magic table-cloth in th Bohemian Story of Biismanda, (Waldau, p. 44) and a magic pot on p, 436 of the same collection; and a food-providing iruta in the Portuguese story of A Cacheirinha (Coelho, Centos PortugueEes, p. 68). In the Pentamerone No. 42 there is a ma^io chest. Euhn has some remarks on the *' Tischchen deck dich " of German tales in his Westfelische Marchen, Vol. I, p. 369. For a similar artifice to Putraka's, see the story entitled Fiacher-Marchen in GaaL Marchen der Magyaren, p. 168, Waldau, Bohmische Marchen, pp.260 and 564 and Dasent's Norse Tales, pp. 213 and 214. Page 20. Add to notef Cp. the 67th Story in Ooelho's Gontos Popularea Portuguezes, and the 29th in the Pentamerone of Basile. There is a somewhat simi- lar story in the English Gcsta (Herrtage, No. XXV) in which three knights arc killed A very similar story is quot3d in Melusine, p. 178, from Thorbum's Banna or our Afghan Frontier. Page 22. Add to note * There is a slight resemblance to this story in Sagaa from the Far East, p. 222. By this it may bo connected with a cycle of European no