_Source_.--_Celtic Magazine_, xiii. 213-8, Gaelic and English from Mr.
Kenneth Macleod.
_Parallels_.--Mr. Macleod heard another version in which "Gold Tree"
(anonymous in this variant) is bewitched to kill her father's horse,
dog, and cock. Abroad it is the Grimm's _Schneewittchen_ (No. 53), for
the Continental variants of which see Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sicil.
Mährchen_, Nos. 2-4, Grimm's notes on 53, and Crane, _Ital. Pop.
Tales_, 331. No other version is known in the British Isles.
_Remarks_.--It is unlikely, I should say impossible, that this tale,
with the incident of the dormant heroine, should have arisen
independently in the Highlands; it is most likely an importation from
abroad. Yet in it occurs a most "primitive" incident, the bigamous
household of the hero; this is glossed over in Mr. Macleod's other
variant. On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly
be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands. Yet if, as is
probable, the story came from abroad, this trait may have come with it,
and only implies polygamy in the original home of the tale.