_Source_.--Mrs. Bray, _The Tamar and the Tavy_, i. 174 (letters to
Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in _Folk-Lore_, i. 207-8. I have
christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.
_Parallels_.--Mr. Hartland has studied Human Midwives in the _Archaeol.
Review_, iv., and parallels to our story in _Folk-Lore_, i. 209, _seq._;
the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.),
_Otia Imper._, iii. 85, and three Breton tales given by M. Sebillot
(_Contes_, ii. 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst._, i. 109).
_Cf._ Prof. Child, i. 339; ii. 505.