It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East
and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham. Prof. Cowell
suggests that it was possibly adapted at the latter place to account for
the effigy of the pedlar and his dog.
LXIV. THE OLD WITCH
_Source._--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford.
_Parallels._--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia
in 1860. It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' _Frau Holle_, where the
good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way. Perrault's
_Toads and Diamonds_ is of the same _genus_.
LXV. THE THREE WISHES
_Source._--Steinberg's _Folk-Lore of Northamptonshire_, 1851, but
entirely rewritten by Mr. Nutt, who has introduced from other variants
one touch at the close--viz., the readiness of the wife to allow her
husband to remain disfigured.
_Parallels._--Perrault's _Trois Souhaits_ is the same tale, and Mr. Lang
has shown in his edition of Perrault (pp. xlii.-li.) how widely spread
is the theme throughout the climes and the ages.
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