Chapter XL: Fairy Ointment

_Source_.--Mrs. Bray, _The Tamar and the Tavy_, i. 174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in _Folk-Lore_, i. 207-8. I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.

_Parallels_.--Mr. Hartland has studied Human Midwives in the _Archaeol. Review_, iv., and parallels to our story in _Folk-Lore_, i. 209, _seq._; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), _Otia Imper._, iii. 85, and three Breton tales given by M. Sebillot (_Contes_, ii. 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst._, i. 109). _Cf._ Prof. Child, i. 339; ii. 505.