ffirs is _The Wonderful Horns_[71]. As among the Santals (an
'aboriginal' hilltribe of India) we have a hero, not a heroine. 'There
was once a boy whose mother that bore him was dead, and who was
ill-treated by his other mothers,' the Kaffirs being polygamous. He rode
off on an ox given him by his father. The ox fought a bull and won. Food
was supplied out of his right horn, and the 'leavings' (as in the _Black
Bull o'Norroway_) were put into the left horn. In another fight the ox
was killed, but his horns continued to be a magical source of supplies.
A new mantle and handsome ornaments came out of them, and by virtue of
this fairy splendour he won and wedded a very beautiful girl.

Here, it may be said, there is nothing of _Cendrillon_, except that rich
garments, miraculously furnished, help to make a marriage; and that the
person thus aided was the victim of a stepmother. No doubt this is not
much, but we might sum up _Cendrillon_ thus. The victim of a stepmother
makes a great marriage by dint of goodly garments supernaturally
provided.

In _Cendrillon_ the _recognition_ (anagnorisis) makes a great part of
the interest. There is no anagnorisis in the Kaffir legend, which is
very short, being either truncated or undeveloped.

Let us now turn to the Santals, a remote and shy non-Aryan hill-tribe of
India. Here we find the anagnorisis, but in a form not only
disappointing but almost cynical[72].

In the Santal story we have the cruel Stepmother, the hero,--not a
heroine, but a boy,--the protecting and friendly Cow, the attempt to
kill the Cow, the Flight, the great good-fortune of the hero, the
Princess who falls in love with a lock of his hair, which is to play the
part of Cinderella's glass slipper in the anagnorisis, and, finally, a
cynically devised accident, by which the beauty of the hair is
destroyed, and the hero's chance of pleasing the princess perishes. It
will be noticed that the use of a lock of hair floating down a river, to
be fallen in love with and help the _denouement_, is found, first, in
the Egyptian _conte_ of the _Two Brothers_, written down in the reign of
Ramses II., fourteen hundred years before our era.

In that story, too, the hero has a friendly cow, which warns him when he
is in danger of being murdered. But the Egyptian story has no other
connection with _Cendrillon_[73]. The device of a floating lock of hair
is not uncommon in Bengali _Maerchen_.

From the Santals let us turn to anoth