Sivi/t's Hoax, 237 



quet le genereux, De trois ivrognes et de leurs femmes^ Paris, 

 1630 ; cf. Wesselski, above. There are besides : an early German 

 tale published b}' Keller (cf. Liebrecht, op. cit., p. 128) ; a Nor- 

 wegian version (Liebrecht, p. 131) ; Islandic (Liebrecht, p. 132) ; 

 Scotch (Popular tales of the West Highlands), orally collected 

 by J. F. Campbell, Edinburgh, 1860, Vol. II, no, xlviii, p. 373 ff . ; 

 Danish (Liebrecht, p. 130); Sicilian (Liebrecht, p. 133); and 

 Russian (Liebrecht, p. 139). 



Appendix II. 



The following list gives anecdotes and tales whose subject matter 

 turns on the deception of a man who is persviaded that he is dead. 



1. Jean de Boves, Lc vilain de Baillenl, a fabliau (la femme qui tit 

 croire a son mari qu'il etait mort). Cf. Montaiglon's Rixciiil, iv, 

 212. 



2. Gastius, Convivialcs scnuones, Basil. 1549, vol. i, p. 200 ; cf. Le 

 Grand D'Aussy, Fabliaux on cofites, Paris 1829, iv, 195. 



3. Jacques de Vitry, Exempla, edit. Crane, London, 1890 ; ex. 

 ccxlviii, and p. 238. Here the wife merely persuades her hus- 

 band that he is ill and must remain in bed. 



4. Boccaccio, Decamerone, 3rd day, 8th novel : Ferondo, mangiata 

 certa polvere, e sotterrato per morto, et dall' abate, che la mogiie 

 di lui si gode, tratto della sepoltura, e messo in prigione, et 

 fattogli credere che egli e in purgatorio ; et poi risuscitato, per 

 suo nutrica un figliuolo dell' abate nella mogiie di lui generato. 



5. La Fontaine, Coiitcs, quatrieine partie, VI : (taken from Boc- 

 caccio) Fc'ronde on le purgatoire ; edit, by Regnier : Les Grands 

 Ecrivains de la France, Vol. v, 1889, p. 379 ff. In this connec- 

 tion cf. also La Fontaine's Fables, book III, faljle VII, L'ivrogne 

 et sa femme, Vol. I, p. 223, in which a woman makes her husband 

 believe that he is dead and in hell. 



6. PoGGio, Facetiae: de mortuo vivo ad sepulchrum deducto, 

 loquente et risum movente. 



7. Domenichi, Lodovico, Facetie, motti e burle; cf. Le Grand D'Auss}', 

 op. cit. 



8. Bandello, Novelle, II, no. 17 : La mogiie d'un Bresciano imbriaca, 

 si pensa esser ita in paradiso, e dice di gran papolate. 



9. Doxi, A., Titttc le novelle, Milano, 1863, no. 6 : Novella di Girolam.o 

 linaiuolo fiorentino che mori due volte e non risuscito nessuna. 



