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Appendix F
The hero of another folk-tale captures the Winged Horse of the Plain : he
waits till it stoops its head in drinking from a spring, then leaps on to its back,
and makes it swear by its brother to serve him1. He too can be paralleled by
Bellerophontes, who captures Pegasos while drinking at the spring Peirene2;
and Pegasos, we remember, has Chrysaor for brother3. Lastly, the folk-tale
hero, who as a new-born babe is put into a box and flung into the sea, while
his mother is walled up in the jakes4, recalls the classical myth of Danae, first
shut up in an underground chamber and then sent adrift in a chest on the sea
Fig. 886.
with the infant Perseus. And, when the said folk-tale hero vanquishes the
Tzitzinaina that turns men into stone5, we can but compare Perseus decapitating
Medousa and returning in triumph with her petrifying head. The fact is, these
modern European folk-tales are—as E. S. Hartland expresses it—'stuff of the
kind out of which the classical and other mythologies grew6.' Such cor-
respondences between the modern illiterate folk-tale and the ancient literary
myth are, therefore, to be expected. Parian marble must needs bear a certain
resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles'.
either quite early or quite late in the lunation is intended. If the former, the vase must
represent the western horizon soon after sunset in spring. If the latter, it represents the
eastern sky shortly before sunrise in autumn. No obvious meaning attaches to the short
curved lines within or without the moon's disc. The scale on which the moon is repre-
sented is much larger than that on which the great square of Pegasus appears.'
1 Supra p. 1006. 2 Strab. 379.
3 O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Etic. iii. 2484, H. W. Stoll in Roscher Lex.
Myth. i. 900, F. Hannig ib. iii. 1749. Supra\>. 716 ff.
4 Supra p. 1003 f.
5 Supra p. 1004.
6 E. S. Hartland Mythology and Folktales London 1900 p. 35.
7 We must, however, bear in mind the warning uttered by that careful student of Greek
Appendix F
The hero of another folk-tale captures the Winged Horse of the Plain : he
waits till it stoops its head in drinking from a spring, then leaps on to its back,
and makes it swear by its brother to serve him1. He too can be paralleled by
Bellerophontes, who captures Pegasos while drinking at the spring Peirene2;
and Pegasos, we remember, has Chrysaor for brother3. Lastly, the folk-tale
hero, who as a new-born babe is put into a box and flung into the sea, while
his mother is walled up in the jakes4, recalls the classical myth of Danae, first
shut up in an underground chamber and then sent adrift in a chest on the sea
Fig. 886.
with the infant Perseus. And, when the said folk-tale hero vanquishes the
Tzitzinaina that turns men into stone5, we can but compare Perseus decapitating
Medousa and returning in triumph with her petrifying head. The fact is, these
modern European folk-tales are—as E. S. Hartland expresses it—'stuff of the
kind out of which the classical and other mythologies grew6.' Such cor-
respondences between the modern illiterate folk-tale and the ancient literary
myth are, therefore, to be expected. Parian marble must needs bear a certain
resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles'.
either quite early or quite late in the lunation is intended. If the former, the vase must
represent the western horizon soon after sunset in spring. If the latter, it represents the
eastern sky shortly before sunrise in autumn. No obvious meaning attaches to the short
curved lines within or without the moon's disc. The scale on which the moon is repre-
sented is much larger than that on which the great square of Pegasus appears.'
1 Supra p. 1006. 2 Strab. 379.
3 O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Etic. iii. 2484, H. W. Stoll in Roscher Lex.
Myth. i. 900, F. Hannig ib. iii. 1749. Supra\>. 716 ff.
4 Supra p. 1003 f.
5 Supra p. 1004.
6 E. S. Hartland Mythology and Folktales London 1900 p. 35.
7 We must, however, bear in mind the warning uttered by that careful student of Greek