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we start, and are afraid whe'n we heare one cuie Bough!and they have so fraied us with bull-beggers, spirits,witches, urches, elves, hags, fairies, satyrs, pans, sylens,Kit with the cansticke, tritons, centaurs, dwarfes, giants,imps, calcars, conjurors, nymphes, changling, Incubus,.Kobin Good-fellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man inthe oke, the hell wain, the fier drake, the puckle, TomThombe, Hob gobblin, Tom Tumbler, boneless, and suchother bugs, that we are afraid of our owne shadowes.' —Vgl. J. Ritson, Fairy Tales ed. Hazlitt 1875 p. 33.

89. George Peele läßt in seinem Märchenspiel 'Theold wives' tale' (1595. Works ed. by Bullen 1888 1, 307)die Vorgeschichte durch Frau Madge ihren Gästen erzählen.'I am content to drive away the time with an old wives'winter's tale . . . Once upon a time, there was a king,that had a fair daughter, the fairest that ever was, aswhite as snow and as red as blood. And once upon atime his daughter was stolen away, and he sent all hismen to seek out his daughter . . . There was a conjurer,and this conjurer could do anything, and he turned him-self into a great dragon, and carried the king's daughteraway in his mouth to a Castle that he made of stone;and there he kept her I know not how long, tili at lastall the king's men went out, so long that her two brotherswent to seek her. O, I forget; he turned a proper youngman to a bear in the night, and a man in the day, and[he] keeps by a cross that parts three several ways; andhe made his lady run mad.' Gleich darauf treten dieBrüder der geraubten Königstochter Delia auf: sie geratenaber ebenfalls in des Zauberers Macht, den erst DeliasLiebster, der fahrende Ritter Eumenides, mit Hilfe einesdankbaren Toten überwindet. 1 )

') Oben 3, 498.