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seat at Memphis. The king fell in love with the foot to which the slipper 
belonged, and gave orders that its owner should be searched for, and when 
Rhodope was found, the King married her. 
“In the Hindu tale a rajah has an only daughter, who was born with a 
golden necklace which contained her soul, and the father was warned that, 
if the necklace were taken off and worn by another, the princess would die. 
One birthday he gave her a pair of golden and jewelled slippers, which she 
wore whenever she went out ; and one day, as she was picking flowers upon 
a mountain, a slipper came off, and fell down the steep side into the forest 
below. It was searched for in vain; but not long after a prince who was 
hunting, found it, and took it to his mother, who judging how fair and high- 
born the owner must be, advised him to seek for her, and make her his wife. 
He made public the finding of the slipper throughout the kingdom, but no 
one claimed it, and he had well nigh despaired, when some travellers from 
the rajah’s country heard that the missing slipper was in the hands of the 
prince, to whom they made known its owners name. He straightway 
repaired to the rajah’s palace,’ and showing him the slipper, asked for the 
hand of the princess, who became his wife. After her marriage; a jealous 
woman stole the necklace while she was sleeping, and to her husband’s deep 
grief her body was carried to the tomb. But it did not decay, nor did the 
bloom of life leave her sweet face, so that the prince was glad to visit her 
tomb; and one day the secret whereby her soul could be restored was 
revealed to him. He recovered the necklace, placed it round her neck, and 
with joy brought her back to his palace. The like framework of a slipper 
for whose pretty wearer a search is made, and who becomes the finder’s 
wife, occurs in the Serbian tale of ‘Papalluga;’ in the German tale of 
‘Aschen-puttel ;’ in the fable of La Fontaine about the ‘Milkmaid and her 
Pail;’ and other varients of the story, whose birthplace, as we have seen, 
was in Central Asia.” 
In looking through the various superstitions of different races, one 
expects to come across a number regarding horses, cattle, frogs, and toads. 
In the Méneteenth Century for July, the writer on the article on Transylvanian 
Superstition tells us that a toad taking up its residence in a cow byre, is 
assuredly regarded as in the service of a witch, and has been sent there to 
purloin the milk; and that it is necessary, therefore, that it be stoned to 
death. The skull of a horse also placed over the gate of the courtyard, or 
the bones of fallen animals buried under the doorstep, are preservatives 
against ghosts. In our article in The Yorkshire Weekly Post, of August 22, 
we spoke of the absurd practice of burning the palate of the horse for the 
supposed cure of lampas. This cruel method of treatment, though gradually 
dying out, is still not very uncommon, being generally carried out by the 
village blacksmith. 
We might give many other examples of erroneous practices which are 
in vogue, but we have already diverged somewhat from our original point, 
and those mentioned shew us that education is alone able to dispel illusion. 
Quackery of many forms and varieties is founded on superstition, and a 
