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In a Swedish ballad, Rosea Lilla and her lover, a duke, are buried 

 south and north, in a churchyard, and a rosebush growing from the 

 grave of Rosea Lilla covers the grave with its leaves. The lover is 

 then laid in her grave, and a linden springs from it.' A Bulgarian 

 song speaks of a youth growing up as a rose-tree and the maid as a 

 grape vine.^ In another song from the same source it is a rose and 

 vine. In two Croatian songs, it is also a grape-vine and a rose; the 

 youth (in one of them) is buried behind the church and the maid 

 before.^ In a Servian song, a red rosebush growing from one grave 

 twines around a green fir rising from the other.* A rose and a lily, 

 in a Slovenian song, issues from the graves of two lovers, buried east 

 and west (of a church ?) and mingle their growth.^ In a Galician 

 song a rose and a sage plant spring from one grave and a rosemary 

 from the other; the flowers interlace.^ According to a Turkish tale, 

 Sora Chenim goes down into the grave of Taji Pascha, which opens 

 to receive her. The "black heathen" orders one of his slaves to kill 

 and bury him between the two lovers. Taji Pascha grows up as a 

 poplar, Sora Chenim as a rosebush, and the "black heathen" as a 

 thorn .^ The plants are roses and canes in "Dom Diniz," a Portuguese 

 song,^ and in another, "The Princess Pèlerine," roses and pines. ^ 



In countries where it flourished, especially in Greece, the cypress 

 frequently appears in folk-songs. In one case, the lovers embrace, 

 fall dead; a cypress and a lemon-tree spring from their graves.^" It 

 is a cypress and an apple-tree, in another. ^^ In a song from the 

 Peloponnesus, the lover becomes a reed, the girl becomes a cypress, 

 and 



"The reed to kiss doth bend his head, he bends to kiss the cypress."" 



1 Child (I, 96) citing Arwidsson (Stockholm, 1834^2). 



2 Ibid., (VI, 498) citing Miladnov, (Agram, 1861, and Sophia, 1891). Also G. 

 Meyer, in Mélusine, IV, 87. 



* Ibid., (VI, 498) citing Kurelac, (Agram, 1871). 



* Ibid., (I, 97) citing Talvj (Leipzig, 1853). Also Dyer, The Folk-Lore of Plants, 

 p. 12, citing what is probably the same song; and Grimm, Teutonic Mythology (Stally- 

 brass trans.). Vol. II, p. 827, citing Vuk, I, No. 137. 



6 Ibid., (II, 490) citing Stùr, (Prague, 1853). 



* Karlowicz, J., Les deux arbres entrelacés, Mélusine, Paris (1890-91), Vol. V, 42. 

 ^ Child (X, 285-6), quoting Radloff. (St. Petersburg, 1885-86). 



» Ibid., (I, 97) citing Veiga. (Lisbon, 1870.) 



' Puymaigre, Theodore, Comte de, Choix de vieux Chants portugais, (Paris, 

 1881), pp. 16-17, citing Almeida-Garrett. 



"> Child (I, 97, 200; IV, 498) citing Chasiotis and Sakellarios (Athens, 1866, 

 1868). 



" Ibid., (I, 97) citing Sakellarios. 



" Garnett, Lucy M. J., Greek Folk-Poesy (Guildford, 1896), Vol. I, p. 148. 



