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from their tombs; and the mother (or father) of one of the lovers 

 wants to destroy the plants.^ 



In the French song of "Les deux amoureux," lavender and a 

 tree grow from the graves.^ 



In the song "Le due tombe," from Piedmont, one of the lovers 

 is buried in the church and one outside. A pomegranate springing 

 from the man's grave and an almond-tree from the girl's grow large 

 enough to shade three cities.' In version D of the same song, an 

 almond-tree grows from the man's grave and a jessamine from the 

 maid's. 



In a Russian song, from the cossack's grave issues a thorn, 

 and an elder from that of the maid. The cossack's mother goes to 

 pull up the thorn and cries, "Lo! this is no thorn; it is my son!" 

 The girl's mother goes to pluck the elder and exclaims, "Lo! this is no 

 elder; it is my daughter!" both mothers being inimical.^ 



From the grave mound of a girl, in an ancient Romansch ballad, 

 grows a camomile plant, from that of her lover a plant of musk, and 

 the plants twine together and embrace.^ 



(2) Often the same kind of tree springs from each grave. Thus, 

 in the Gaelic tale, the lovers Deirdre and Naois, are buried on either 

 side of a loch ; fir shoots grow from their graves and unite in a knot 

 above the loch. Twice these shoots are cut down by the king's order, 

 but each time they grow again; the king's wife then intercedes and 

 the third time they are allowed to unite in peace.® 



An old Cornish tradition (cited by Folkard) describes how 

 "Iseult, unable to endure the loss of her betrothed . . . died 

 broken-hearted, and was buried in the same church; ... by 

 order of the king, their graves were placed far asunder. But soon 

 from the grave of Tristan came forth a branch of ivy, and from the 

 tomb of Iseult there issued another branch. Both gradually grew 

 upwards, until at last the lovers, represented by the clinging ivy, 

 were again united beneath the vaulted roof of the sanctuary."^ 



1 Child (I, 98) citing Aigner. 



2 Ibid., (VIII, 443) citing Daymard (Cahors, 1889). 



» Ibid., (VI, 498, Version A) citing Nigra (Turin, 1888). Also "Fior di Tomba" 

 (No. 19, in the same collection) in which there is only one grave, large enough to 

 contain the maid's parents, her lover and herself; see also the fragments E, F. 



4 Ibid., (IV, 498) citing Trudy. 



' Martinengo-Cesaresco, op. cit., pp. 38-39. 



• Jacobs, Joseph, Celtic Fairy Tales (New York and London, n. d.), p. 91. The 

 original of this story is given in the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, 

 XIII, p. 257. The translation, which is Jacobs' source, appeared in the Celtic Maga- 

 zt»tf,^XIII, p. 69, et seq. 



^ Folkard, Richard, Jr., Plant Lore (London, 1884), p. 389. 



