_Source_.--Given by Mr. Lang in _Longman's Magazine_, vol. xiv. and
reprinted in _Folk-Lore_, Sept. 1890. It is very corrupt, both girls
being called Kate, and I have had largely to rewrite.
_Parallels_.--There is a tale which is clearly a cousin if not a parent
of this in _Kennedy's Fictions_, 54 _seq._, containing the visit to the
green hill (for which see “Childe Rowland”), a reference to nuts,
and even the sesame rhyme. The prince is here a corpse who becomes
revivified; the same story is in Campbell No. 13. The jealous stepmother
is “universally human.” (_Cf._ Köhler on Gonzenbach, ii. 206.)