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In a Roumanian ballad a fir and a vine grow from the graves 

 and meet over the church.^ From the youth, according to a Servian 

 text, grows a pine and from the maid a grape-vine.^ The vine twines 

 around the pine, in a Servian song.' 



In Bulgaria, a song mentions a poplar growing from the girl's 

 grave and a pine from her lover's.'* 



Several instances are to be found in Portuguese songs: in "Dom 

 Doardos," it is an olive and pine trees ;^ in "A Ermida no Mar," it 

 is a clove-tree and a pine; in "Filha Maria," it is a tree and pines;' 

 in another song, a clump of pine trees grows over the grave of the 

 knight and reeds on the grave of the princess. Though cut down, 

 these plants grow again and are heard sighing in the night.' 



It is a green maple and white birch, in a Russian song, the maple 

 springing from the man who is buried under the church and the white 

 birch from the woman buried under the belfry.^ In the following 

 Little-Russian ballads: (1) a maple growing from the man's grave 

 and a white birch from the woman's mingle their leaves;® (2) the 

 lovers are buried apart and a green plane tree grows from his grave 

 and two birches from hers (but the branches do not interlace);^" 

 (3) the lover is buried on one side of the church and the maiden on 

 the other. On his grave grows a rosemary, on hers a lily, and they 

 both grow so high that they meet over the roof of the church. The 

 girl's mother cuts them 'down, and the lover, speaking from the grave, 

 upbraids her with the words: "Wicked mother, thou wouldst not let 

 us live together; let us rest together ;"^^ (4) the lovers are buried 

 apart in the church, and the same kinds of shrub grow from their 

 graves. ^^ 



A rosemary and a white flower are spoken of in a Croatian song.^^ 



The lovers, according to a Hungarian ballad, are buried, one 

 before the altar and the other behind. White and red lilies grow 



1 Child (I, 97) citing Alecsandri (Bucharest, 1886-7); Stanley (Hertford, 1856), 

 and Murray (London, 1859). 



2 Ibid., (VI, 498) citing Vuk (Berlin, 1854). 

 ' Ibid., citing Krasic (Pantchevo, 1880). 



* Ibid., (VIII, 443) citing Collection of the Bulgarian Ministry of Instruction. 



6 Ibid., (I, 97) citing Braga (Porto, 1869), also Hartung. 



6 Ibid., (I, 97). 



^ Ibid., citing Almeida-Garrett, 



8 Ibid., (IV, 498) citing Trudy (St. Petersburg, 1872-77). 



9 Ibid., (II, 490) citing Golovatsky. 



10 Karlowicz in Mélusine, V, 40, citing Kolberg (Cracow, 1882-1889). 

 " Child (II, 489), citing Golovatzky. See also Karlowicz, op. cit., 40. 

 12 Ibid., (VIII, 443) citing Holovatzky. 



" Ibid., (VI, 498) citing Kurelac. 



