Acknowledgment
Thanks are due to the Frederick A. Stokes Company for permission to use, in Part III, three tales from volumes published by them: Chapter XX, The Biter Bit, from “Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians,” by Vojislav M. Petrovic; Chapter XXI, The Peach’s Son, from “Myths and Legends of Japan,” by F. Hadland Davis; and Chapter XXIII, The Stone Giantess, from “The Myths of the North American Indians,” by Lewis Spence.