Chapter XXXVII: Kate Crackernuts

_Source_.--Given by Mr. Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, vol. xiv. and reprinted in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890. It is very corrupt, both girls being called Kate, and I have had largely to rewrite.

_Parallels_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent of this in _Kennedy's Fictions_, 54 _seq._, containing the visit to the green hill (for which see “Childe Rowland”), a reference to nuts, and even the sesame rhyme. The prince is here a corpse who becomes revivified; the same story is in Campbell No. 13. The jealous stepmother is “universally human.” (_Cf._ Köhler on Gonzenbach, ii. 206.)