of the
story was England, where most of the hero-tales locate the incident. I
would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces of
the story in these islands nowadays, while it abounds in Italy, which
possesses one almost perfect version of the formula (Miss Cox, No. 142,
from Sardinia).

Mr. Newell, on the other hand (_American Folk-Lore Journal_, ii., 160),
considers Catskin the earliest of the three types contained in Miss
Cox's book, and considers that Cinderella was derived from this as a
softening of the original. His chief reason appears to be the earlier
appearance of Catskin in Straparola,[4] 1550, a hundred years earlier
than Cinderella in Basile, 1636. This appears to be a somewhat
insufficient basis for such a conclusion. Nor is there, after all, so
close a relation between the two types in their full development as to
necessitate the derivation of one from the other.

[Footnote 3: Who knows the Buck of Beverland nowadays?]

[Footnote 4: It is practically in Des Perier's _Recreations_, 1544.]

LXXXIV. STUPID'S CRIES

_Source._--_Folk-Lore Record_, iii., 152-5, by the veteran Prof.
Stephens. I have changed "dog and bitch" of original to "dog and cat,"
and euphemised the liver and lights.

_Parallels._--Prof. Stephens gives parallels from Denmark. Germany (the
Grimms' _Up Riesensohn_) and Ireland (Kennedy, _Fireside Stories_, p.
30).

LXXXV. THE LAMBTON WORM

_Source._--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, pp. 287-9, I
have rewritten, as the original was rather high falutin'.

_Parallels._--Worms or dragons form the subject of the whole of the
eighth chapter of Henderson. "The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh" (No.
xxxiii.) also requires the milk of nine kye for its daily rations, and
cow's milk is the ordinary provender of such kittle cattle (Grimms'
_Teut. Myth._ 687), the mythological explanation being that cows = the
clouds and the dragon = the storm. Jephtha vows are also frequent in
folk-tales: Miss Cox gives many examples in her _Cinderella_, p. 511.

_Remarks._--Nine generations back from the last of the Lambtons, Henry
Lambton, M.P., ob. 1761, reaches Sir John Lambton, Knight of Rhodes, and
several instances of violent death occur in the interim. Dragons are
possibly survivals into historic times of antedeluvian monsters, or
reminiscences of classical legend (Perseus, etc.). Who shall say which
is which, as Mr. Lang would observe.

LXXXVI. WISE MEN OF G