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[AUGUST, 1881.
Now the Prince Lionheart had gone out hunting Lionheart felt a hot fever creep over his body. and the Princess was all alone. She had a tender He looked to see if anything burning had heart, and when she heard the old woman weep fallen on his his sharp strong sword, but lo, it she said to her, “Mother, why do you weep?” was not his own sword but a changeling.
"I weep," said the wise woman, “to think he cried, "I am undone !" and galloped homewhat will become of you if the handsome Prince wards. But the wise woman blew up the fire is slain, and you are left here in the wilderness so fast that the sword became red hot before the alone."
Prince could reach home, and just as he stood “Very true," said the Princess, and wept too. on the other side of the river, a rivet came out
That night she said, “Dear Prince, what of the sword hilt; the hilt'rolled off, and so did should I do if you were killed P" Prince Lion- | the Prince's head. So he died. heart laughed, saying, "That is not likely: for Then the old wise woman said to the Princess, my life lies in safety."
“Danghter, your beautiful hair is all tangled, But the Princess wept still, and asked “In come and let me wash and dress it against your what thing, dear Prince, does it lie, that I may husband's return." So they went down the help yon to preserve it?"
steps to the water. But the wise woman said, " It lies," answered the Prince, "in my sharp "Step into my boat, sweetheart ; the water will sword, which never fails. If it were broken I be deeper out there." Then while the Princess' should die."
beautiful hair was over her eyes, the wicked old "Then do not take it with you when you go hag loosed the boat, and they went drifting hunting," begged the Princess," it might come down the stream. The Princess wept and to harm."
wailed, but she could do nothing. However she But Prince Lionheart laughed at her fears.
vowed a great vow, and said “You wicked old However, the very next day, when the Prince thing! you are taking me away to some king's was going a hunting, she hid his strong, bright palace I know, but no matter who he is, I swear sword and put another in its place, so that the I will not look on his face for twelve years." Prince was none the wiser.
So when they arrived at the city the King And when the wise woman sat under the caused a high palace to be built for the goldenwindow and cried, she called out joyfully, "Don't haired Princess, and there she lived all alone, cry any more, mother, for the Prince's life is and no one was allowed to enter the courtyard safe to-day. It lies in his sword, and that is but the hewers of wood and drawers of water. safely hidden away in my cupboard."
Now when the Prince Lionheart died, the Then the old woman stole off to the cupboard barley plant which he had given to the Knifewhile the Princess slept, and took the sword : grinder King drooped and languished, and when then she made a big fire, and laid the sword in the rivet came out of the sword and the Prince's it. As it grew hotter and hotter, poor Prince head fell off, the barley stem broke right in two,
* This incident recalls the old European belief of killing victim touch a certain machine (sometimes wand) which and torturing the human body by effigy as it were, 1.6. by causes him to revolve violently and eventually to die: he making a wax effigy of the person to be tortured and is then hung up by his heels, and holes are made in his sticking pins into it, the person of the original being sup- head, through which the brains irace and fall into span posed to feel pain in the parts stuck with pins. An exactly
over a slow fire, and are finally cooked into us go similar belief is current in the PanjAb, and is that referred to in this story. Mehrda, Bhujuds and Mirdes, being
Momydf (Pers. & mommy), a popular medicine in India
supposed to strengthen the brain, and usually composed of respectively the castes of doli-bearers, (layo mehnd, who are
was, etc. In connection with this, it is worth while recordalso, basket makers,) parchers of grain, stbhujwd also
ing that the i garant (from 33 garna, Hindi to sy t? bharbhanja), attendants on nach-girls and
sink; Sansk. Te gartt, a hole), is an effigy or name of singers (pga dam and the mfrast), are believed to
person which, according to Fallon's Dictionary, is buried in
the ground after certain incantations. This ceremony is perbe able to make us guddas, effigies of cloth and rage or formed for the destruction of any person w ho mdran), wax into which they stick pins, the person of the original
to secure his affection (uryo mohan), to subject him to being supposed to feel pain wherever the pins are stuck into the gudda. The cloth guddd used to be stuck on a pole obedience was the basekaran), to imprison him or deprive and paraded in the streets for the purpose of annoying and
him of power of action or speech (wyrains stambhan), ingusting those who offended the miråsfs. It is & curious circumstance that this belief in making offigies is now to drive him away (w ho uchchajan), or to bring attached to the Jada-ghars
) of Witchcraft him before one (w s T akarshan). Thene divinations, Houses, the popular name in India for Masonic Lodges; however, belong to the learned (pandits) and not to the the popular belief being that the Freemasons make their common people.-R.O.T.
