's
reference to L. Deslongchamps, "Essai sur les Fables Indiennes,"
Paris, 1838, p. 35 and Graesse, "Sagenkreise des Mittelalters,"
Leipsig, 1842, p. 191. See also the numerous references given by
Grimm, _KM._ iii. pp. 168-9.

[297] As well as in all the mythologies. For the magic draught of the
fairy-story appears to be closely connected with the Greek _ambrosia_,
the Vedic _soma_ or _amrita_, the Zend _haoma_.

[298] A water, "Das Wasser des Lebens," in two German stories (Grimm,
Nos. 92 and 97, and iii. p. 178), and in many Greek tales (Hahn, Nos.
32, 37, &c.). An oil or ointment in the Norse tale (Asbjoernsen and
Moe, No. 35, Dasent, No. 3). A balsam in Gaelic tales, in which a
"Vessel of Balsam" often occurs. According to Mr. Campbell ("West
Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Ballan Iocshlaint, teat, of ichor, of
health, seems to be the meaning of the words." The juice squeezed from
the leaves of a tree in a modern Indian tale ("Old Deccan Days," p.
139).

[299] The mythical bird Garuda, the Indian original of the Roc of the
Arabian Nights, was similarly connected with the Amrita. See the story
of Garuda and the Nagas in Brockhaus's translation of the
"Kathasaritsagara," ii. pp. 98-105. On the Vedic falcon which brings
the Soma down to earth, see Kuhn's "Herabkunft des Feuers," pp.
138-142.

[300] In the Russian periodical, "Otechestvennuiya Zapiski," vol. 43
(for 1830) pp. 252-6.

[301] Schiefners's translation, 1852, pp. 80, 81.

[302] In that attributed to Sivadasa, tale 2 (Lassen's "Anthologia
Sanscritica," pp. 16-19), and in the "Kathasaritsagara," chap. lxxvi.
See Brockhaus's summary in the "Berichte der phil. hist. Classe der
Koen. Saechs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften," December 3, 1853, pp.
194-5.

[303] The "Baital-Pachisi," translated by Ghulam Mohammad Munshi,
Bombay 1868, pp. 23-24.

[304] B. G. Babington's translation of "The Vedala Cadai," p. 32.
contained in the "Miscellaneous Translations" of the Oriental
Translation Fund, 1831, vol. i. pt. iv pp. 32 and 67.

[305] Afanasief, _P.V.S._ ii. 551.

[306] Afanasief, viii. p. 205.

[307] Afanasief, vii. No. 5 _b_.

[308] Afanasief, vii. No. 5 _a_. For the _Zhar-Ptitsa_, see infra, p.
285.

[309] Afanasief, vi. p. 249. For a number of interesting legends,
collected from the most distant parts of the world, about grinding
mountains and crashing cliffs, &c., see Tylor's "Primitive Culture,"
pp. 313-16. After quoting three mythic description