Chapter M: GASTER, Ph.D

VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ETC., ETC.

"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee."

Job xii. 7.

LONDON
Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1915

To
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELISABETH OF RUMANIA
"Carmen Sylva"
To Whom the Soul of the Rumanian People is as an Open Book
A Page of that Book
Is
By Gracious Permission
Dedicated