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NOTES AND REFERENCES

In the following notes I give first the _source_ whence I
obtained the various tales. Then come _parallels_ in some fulness
for the United Kingdom, but only a single example for foreign
countries, with a bibliographical reference where further variants can
be found. Finally, a few _remarks_ are sometimes added where the
tale seems to need it. In two cases (Nos. xvi. and xxi.) I have been
more full.



I. TOM TIT TOT.

_Source_.--Unearthed by Mr. E. Clodd from the "Suffolk Notes and
Queries" of the _Ipswich Journal_, and reprinted by him in a
paper on "The Philosophy of Rumpelstiltskin" in _Folk-Lore
Journal_, vii. 138-43. I have reduced the Suffolk dialect.

_Parallels_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as "Habetrot and Scantlie
Mab," in Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, 221-6; in
Devonshire as "Duffy and the Devil" in Hunt's _Romances and Drolls