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So here we give you the last of the old stories, for the present, and hope you will like them, and feel grateful to the Brothers Grimm, who took them down from the telling of old women, and to M. Sebillot and M. Charles Marelles, who have lent us some tales from their own French people, and to Mr.
"The fourth and fifth glasses, too, seemed to have no more kick in them than the first. . . . Nothing much seemed to be happening, except that Sebillot had brought in an extra lamp at any rate, the room was brighter, and I could see the bagmen's faces more distinctly as they smiled and congratulated us.
Why, I want to go with my palace to the old place, and for the King and the Queen and all their servants to be drowned in the Red Sea. He hardly finished speaking when he found himself back again with his wife, while all the other inhabitants of the palace were lying at the bottom of the Red Sea. Sebillot. Once upon a time there was a great lord who had three sons.
With the loss of sanctity the reason for prohibiting the attendance of men would vanish; but the tradition of it would be preserved in the incident of the story which narrated Peeping Tom's treachery. Bray, vol. i. p. 174. Cromek, p. 242; "Y Cymmrodor," vol. iv. p. 209; "Revue des Trad. Pop." vol. iii. p. 426; "Revue Celtique," vol. i. p. 232. Sébillot, "Contes," vol. ii. p. 34; "Revue des Trad.
Next morning I wheedled two more bottles of the stuff out of old Sebillot which leaves him two for the wedding. I thought that you and I might have some fun with them. . . . Now tell me your experience." "That," said I, "must wait until you unlock my tongue; if indeed you have brought home the genuine Mont-Bazillac."
Threatened to be killed Sébillot, "Trad. et Super." vol. i. p. 118; "Contes," vol. i. p. 28, vol. ii. p. 76; Carnoy, p. 4. Grohmann, p. 135; Wratislaw, p. 161; Schleicher, p. 92. "Y Brython," vol. ii. p. 20; Kennedy, p. 90; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 174; Napier, p. 40; Lady Wilde, vol. i. pp. 72, 171; Keightley, p. 393; "Revue des Trad.
One of the guests, more curious than the rest, stayed behind to examine the dress, determined, if she could, to find out the cause of the disaster. 'The thread must have been rotten, she said to herself. 'I will see if I can break it. But search as she would she could find none. The thread had vanished. From 'Littérature Orale de l'Auvergne, par Paul Sébillot.
The foundation, however, appears to be traditional. Campbell, vol. ii. pp. 63, 55. "F. L. Journal," vol. vi. p. 191. Aberd. Eistedd." p. 227; "F. L. Journal," vol. vi. p. 183. Radloff, vol. i. p. 95, vol. iv. p. 109; Sébillot, "Contes," vol. ii. p. 8; Grimm, "Tales," vol. i. p. 162. Jahn, p. 199; Grohmann, pp. 19, 20, 18. Kuhn und Schwartz, pp. 220, 222. Rappold, p. 34.
Wirt Sikes quotes this story without acknowledgment, stating that the legend, "varying but little in phraseology, is current in the neighbourhood of a dozen different mountain lakes." As if he had collected it himself! Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 120, apparently quoting Harry's "Sagen, Märchen und Legenden Niedersachsens"; Sébillot, "Trad. et Sup." vol. i. p. 115; "Zeits. f.
'A guard of soldiers will take you back to your hut, said the king. 'Your wife has the key. 'Weren't they silly? cried the grandchildren of the charcoal-burners when they heard the story. 'How we wish that we had had the chance! We should never have wanted to know what was in the soup-tureen! From 'Littérature Orale de l'Auvergne, par P. Sébillot.
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