... we know, and the story of Bitiou may be either the detritus or the germ of the myth. ... ... it among some nameless earlier people, fugitives from Kôr, perhaps, or anywhere else. We know not whether the remote ancestors of modern peoples, African, or European, or Asiatic, who now possess forms of the tale borrowed it ...
... II 198 Nr. 61, » La pomme d'or « ebendaher. Das Märchen ist die einzige französische, allerdings sehr verblaßte Variante ... ... 43, » Jeanne la diote «. Zum Kreis von der klugen Else vgl. KHM 34, Bolte-Polivka I 335, Aarne ... ... Paris 1886, I 126, » Pieds-d'or « aus St. Martin de Goeyne (Dep. Gers ...