" Mrs. Balfour's telling redeems it from the usual
dulness of folk-tales with a moral or a double meaning.
LX. THE THREE COWS
_Source._--Contributed to Henderson, _l.c._, pp. 321-2, by the Rev. S.
Baring-Gould.
_Parallels._--The incident "Bones together" occurs in _Rushen Coatie_
(_infra_, No. lxx.), and has been discussed by the Grimms, i., 399, and
by Prof. Koehler, _Or. und Occ._, ii., 680.
LXI. THE BLINDED GIANT
_Source._--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_. See also
_Folk-Lore_.
_Parallels._--Polyphemus in the Odyssey and the Celtic parallels in
_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. v., "Conall Yellowclaw." The same incident
occurs in one of Sindbad's voyages.
_Remarks._--Here we have another instance of the localisation of a
well-known myth. There can be little doubt that the version is
ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey. The one-eyed giant, the
barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of
a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have
arisen independently and casually.
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