¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them
lattar one into it ; but, euriously enough, in thè note to thè last-named page of Mr, Cox’s work, he happens aetually to establish an intrinsic identity of origin in thè two stori es. The Three Wishes story has also a strangely localized home in thè Oetzthal, which, though properly be- longing to thè division of North Tirol, I prefer tacite bere, for thè sake of ito analogies. Ita porticiilar home is in thè eo-callcd Thal Veni, ou thè frozen borders of thè Gletscher described by Weber, as appalling
to a degne in ite' loneliness, and in thè roaring of ita torrente, and th© Siena rugged inaccessibility of its peaks. Here, he says, three Selige Fräulein (Weber, like Schneller, translatos everything inexorably into German ; this may have been an Enguana) bave their abode in a sump- tuous subterranean palacc, which no mortai might reacb. They are also called die drei Feyen, he says, forming a further Identification with th© normal legend, but he does not account for thè penetration of the French word