_Cupid and Psyche_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).--This is probably an old
_Folk-tale_, originally perhaps an antique philosophical temple-allegory.
Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new shape. The tale is
still current, but in a form _not_ derived from him, among the _Swedes_,
_Norwegians_, _Danes_, _Scots_, _Germans_, _French_, _Wallachians_,
_Italians_, and _Hindoos_. See _Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter
muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. Cavallius och G.
Stephens_, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323.