The reasons for which India has been regarded as a great centre and fountain-head of popular stories are, on the other hand, excellent, if the theory is sufficiently limited.
As the different branches scattered and separated, they carried with them their common store of myths, which were gradually worn down into the detritus of popular stories, "the youngest form of the myth".
It is still reprinted under the title, Grimm's Popular Stories.
The merchant seldom plays a good part in popular stories.
The ship with the buffalo's hide is found again in popular stories.
Although the incidents that take up the principal part of the scene of Beowulf are among the commonest in popular stories, it is impossible to mistake the poem for one of the ordinary tales of terror and wonder.
Further, the whole scheme is a common one in popular stories, especially in Celtic stories of giants; after the giant is killed his mother comes to avenge him.
In popular stories, now terrible lions and now dreadful dogs are found guarding the gate of the monster's dwelling.
The same is done by the witches of popular stories,[327] and by the striges.
The monstrous lion who guards the monster's dwelling, the infernal abode, is found in a great number of popular stories.
The Philippine archipelago, from the very nature of its geographical position and its political history, cannot but be a significant field to the student of popular stories.
Popular stories belonging to this cycle and containing the wager are the following:-- J.
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