Part ii

. Helsingissä, 1873:[2] where, under head "Kettu kosiomiehenä"

(the fox as wooer for some one), page 36, another variant (Kehnon koti), "the Evil One's home," is given.

In the Karelian story, "Awaimetoin Wakka" (the Keyless Chest), _S. ja T._ i. p. 151, a lad, when walking in the wood one day, heard his dog barking, and saw that it was a wood-grouse it had found. He drew his bow and was about to shoot when the bird begged him not to do so, and promised to reward him. The lad kept the bird for three years, and at the end of each year a feather fell from the bird's tail, first a copper one, then a silver one, and lastly a gold one; which feathers in the end brought wealth and greatness.

In the Finnish story of "the Golden Bird," a story very much like "Cinder Jack" (in this collection), p. 149, a wolf brings fortune and power to the hero because he fed her and her young ones.

In another Finnish story, "Oriiksi muutettu poika" (The Enchanted Steed), in _Suomalaisia Kansansatuja_, i. (Helsingissä, 1881), a fox assists the fugitives to defeat the devil, who pursues them. This tale is very much like the latter part of "Handsome Paul," p. 33. Compare also a variant from near Wiborg in _Tidskriften Suomi_, ii. 13, p. 120.

In a Lapp story a little bird helps. See "Jætten og Veslegutten," from Hammerfest. _Lappiske Eventyr og Folkesagn ved. Prof. Friis, Christiania_, 1871,[3] p. 52, &c.

It is a cat in "Jætten, Katten og Gutten," from Alten, _Friis_, 63; and a fox in "Bondesønnen, Kongesønnen og Solens Søster," from Tanen, _Friis_, 140.

Mr. Quigstad reports another variant from Lyngen, in which also a cat helps the hero.

See also Steere's _Swahili Tales_: "Sultan Darai"; Dasent's _Tales from the Norse_: "Lord Peter," and "Well done, and ill-paid."

_Old Deccan Days_: "The Brahman." "The Tiger and the Six Judges."

Mitford's _Tales of Old Japan_: "The Grateful Foxes." "The Adventures of little Peachling"; and a Bohemian story of the Dog and the Yellow-hammer in Vernaleken's _In the Land of Marvels_.

Ralston's _Puss in Boots_ in _XIXth Century, January_, 1883. A most interesting and exhaustive article.

Ralston's _Russian Folk Tales_: "The water King and Vasilissa the Wise." A story which in the beginning is very like "The Keyless Chest."

Benfey's _Pantschatantra_, i. 208, and _passim_.

Kletke, _Märchensaal aller Völker_: "Gagliuso."

Perrault, _Contes des Fées_: "Le maitre chat."

Hyltén-Cavallius and Stephens. _Svenska Folksagor_, i. _Stockholm_, 1844: "Slottet som stod på Guldstolpar."

Gubernatis, _Zoological Mythology_, vol. i. 193; vol. ii. 134, 157.

Grimm's _Household Tales_, Bohn's ed. vol. i. "the Golden Bird," p. 227; vol. ii. pp. 46, 154, 323, 427, 527.

_Mentone Stories_, in the _Folk-Lore Record_, vol. iii.