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king and the giant lose their lives, the Assiniboine and Menominee tale immediately following it, show remarkable resemblances. The Assiniboine story is mixed with much Indian matter. It is probably derived from the same, or nearly the same, tradition as the Menominee, though it has evidently lost much of the original material.]

10. Menominee: Skinner, JAFL, xxvi, 76.

Spendthrift knight. A king sends his son out with goods to sell, and the boy gives them all to ghosts. [For this incident see Gerould, The Grateful Dead, passim.] This happens three times in succession, and finally the king has the boy whipped until he appears to be dead.

F. Escape on magic horse. A horse comes to the boy and tells him that he has pitied him because of his mercy. He takes the boy to another court, and himself stays near the palace.

I.

Cook disguise. The boy becomes a cook, and the horse gives him magic papers which make the food excellent.

J. Imposed task: help from horse. The door-keeper becomes jealous of the boy and suggests impossible tasks for him. The king orders the hero to perform these tasks upon pain of death. The first task is to bring in certain wild ponies. His horse gives him a magic ointment by means of which he catches the ponies easily. He trades them off for horses that look just like them. [Cf. Cosquin, i, 143.] The second task is to bring a queen from the middle of the ocean; and this he accomplishes through trickery. By means of his magic powers, he brings the queen's house. Through the help of fish he fetches some keys from the bottom of the ocean. (Cf. Chapter XI, incident E3, below.) His last task is to blow himself up with gunpowder. Through the efficacy of the magic sweat of his horse, he is unharmed and made only more beautiful. The king now imitates the hero and is killed. The hero marries the queen whom he has brought from the middle of the ocean.

11. Kickapoo: Jones and Michelson, PAES, ix, 89. This tale belongs quite as much to the cycle of "The Marooned Rescuer" (Chapter XIV, below) as it does here.

Boy advised by old woman. Cf. Chapter VI, incident B. Fee-fi-fo-fum. Cf. Chapter V, incident E. These first two incidents seem to belong to "The White Cat" (Chapter VI).

E1. Fattening of hero for slaughter. Through the advice of the wife, however, the hero is not slain immediately.

B. Abused and pampered horses. The hero is to feed hay to a lion and blood to a horse. He disobeys.

F.

horse.

Escape on magic horse.

The hero escapes on his magic

The ogre pursues on the lion.

H. Obstacle flight. Regular. The objects thrown are: flint, which makes a fire; shoe peg, which makes cactus bushes; string, which makes vines; whetstone, which makes boulders. They break a bottle and this makes a body of water behind them.

J. Horse helper. The horse gives the hero a hair that will produce magic food for him. Later in the story the hero is helped again by the magic horse.

The story now goes into "The Marooned Rescuer." See Chapter XIV, No. 6.

12. Cheyenne: Kroeber, JAFL, xiii, 172.

The first part of the tale does not belong to this story, but, beginning with the humble disguise of the hero it is a faithful version. For the story, see p. 406, below. The incidents that it contains belonging here are:

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O. Identification by wound in horse.

All the versions of this tale come within well-recognized spheres of French influence, so that there can be little doubt that they have all been taken at one time or another from French Canadian sources.

V. LITTLE POUCET.

The two tales which follow have many points in common, so far as the experience at the house of the ogre is concerned. The parts of the present tale may be most easily studied by means of a general type, with references

to this type from particular versions. For a discussion of the story see Bolte und Polívka, i, 115.

A.

GENERAL TYPE.

Abandoned children. Needy parents abandon their children in the woods.

B. Bread-crumb trail. The children find their way by means of bits of cloth or colored pebbles that they have dropped. The second time, however, the birds cat up the trail of bread-crumbs, and the children cannot find their way home.

C. Protection from ogre's wife. The children (or the hero alone) come to the house of an ogre. The wife (or daughter) of the ogre gives protection.

D. Fee-fi-fo-fum. The ogre enters and smells human flesh. He usually utters the formula "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the flesh of a human being," or the like.

E. Fattening of hero for slaughter. The ogre keeps the hero (or heroes) for fattening before slaughter, (E1) at the suggestion of the wife or (E2) of the hero.-E3. Keeping of hero as husband for daughter. At the wife's suggestion the hero is kept as a husband for their daughter (or the heroine as a wife for their son).

F. Places changed with ogre's children. The ogre places red caps (or gold crowns) on the heads of his children at night. After the house is quiet, the heroes exchange places and caps with the ogre's children. The ogre kills his own children by mistake-F1. Ogre's wife or child burned in his own oven. The hero offers to help the ogre's wife (or daughter) prepare the fire on which he is to be roasted. He beguiles her into looking into the oven, and pushes her in.

G. Hero escapes in ogre's seven-league boots.-G1. When ogre pursues hero, his seven-league boots are stolen from him. The hero beguiles the ogre into sleeping, and steals the boots from him.-G2. Magic flight. The hero escapes from the ogre by means of a magic flight.

H. Stealing from ogre imposed as a task. Jealous rivals suggests to the king to command the hero to steal objects from the ogre.-H1. Stealing from ogre for revenge. The hero returns on seven-league boots and gets revenge by stealing objects from the giant.

I. Objects stolen from giant by trickery. The hero uses strategy and steals objects from the ogre (usually money, boots, a moon, or a violin).-11. Hero captured through magic alarm. The hero is captured because of the alarm raised by a magic object of the ogre's. This incident is usually followed by "F1."

J. Giant captured by trick. The hero beguiles the giant into a cage and takes him to the king's court.-J1. Giant killed by trick. The hero tricks the giant into killing himself.

EUROPEAN VERSIONS.

1. French: Perrault, "Le Petit Poucet," (Andrew Lang, ed., Oxford, 1888, p. 60.)

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E1. Fattening of children for slaughter at wife's suggestion. F. Places changed with ogre's children. Gold crowns exchanged.

G1. Ogre pursues children and his seven-league boots are stolen.

H1. Stealing from ogre for revenge.

I. Objects stolen by trickery.

All regular.

2. French Canadian: Barbeau, JAFL, xxix, 76.

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C. Protection from ogre's wife. She is their aunt.

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F. Places changed with ogre's children. Brown caps exchanged.

G1. Orge pursues heroes and his seven-league boots are stolen.
H1. Stealing from ogre for revenge.

I. Objects stolen by trickery. (a) The wife is tricked into giving up all the ogre's money; (b) the hero, masking as a dog, steals the ogre's magic violin.-11. Hero captured by magic alarm. E2 Hero fattened for slaughter at his own suggestion.

F1. Ogre's wife burned in own oven.

J. Ogre captured by trick. The hero tricks the giant into a box and lets him perish there.

[All the incidents of this version are regular except where noted.]

3. French Canadian: Barbeau, JAFL, xxix, 70.

H. Stealing from ogre imposed as task. An unpromising youngest brother follows his elder brothers to court. They are angry at him, and at their suggestion he is sent by the king to steal objects from a giant.

I. Objects stolen from ogre by trickery. (a) Boots are stolen by use of an invisible robe; (b) a moon is stolen by throwing salt into the giant's soup so that his daughter has to leave the room for water and take the moon along to light her way; (c) a violin is stolen by using an invisible robe and a hatchet.-11. captured through magic alarm.

E2 Hero fattened for slaughter at his suggestion.

Hero is

F1. Ogre's wife and daughter burned in their own oven.

J. Giant captured by trick. The hero takes an iron chariot with twenty men and entices the giant into the chariot. He carries the giant to the king's court.

The hero succeeds in having his treacherous brothers punished by the king.

4. German: Grimm, No. 70a (Bolte und Polívka, ii, 77). C. Protection from ogre's wife. An abandoned princess finds her way to an ogre's house and is kept by the ogre's wife.

E3. Keeping of heroine as wife for son. She keeps the princess so that she may grow up as a wife for her son. The girl, however, falls in love with a prince. The old woman finds them and imprisons them.

F. Places changed with ogre's son. The prince and the ogre's son sleep near together. The girl changes the golden crown from the ogre's son's head to the prince's. The ogre is thus tricked into killing his own son.

G. Hero and heroine escape in ogre's seven-league boots.-G2. Transformation flight. The ogre pursues in a second pair of sevenleague boots. The young people have with them a wishing-rod, a

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