coloured in the warm regions of the south; sterner and wilder
and rougher in the north; more homelike in the middle and
western countries; but always alike in their main features, and
always having the same meaning when we come to dig it out; and
these forms and this meaning being the same in the lands of the
Western Aryans as in those still peopled by the Aryans of the
East.

It would take a very great book to give many examples of the
myths and stories which are alike in all the Aryan countries;
but we may see by one instance what the likeness is; and it
shall be a story which all will know when they read it.

Once upon a time there was a Hindu Rajah, who had an only
daughter, who was born with a golden necklace. In this necklace
was her soul; and if the necklace were taken off and worn by
some one else, the Princess would die. On one of her birthdays
the Rajah gave his daughter a pair of slippers with ornaments of
gold and gems upon them. The Princess went out upon a mountain
to pluck the flowers that grew there, and while she was stooping
to pluck them one of her slippers came off and fell down into a
forest below. A Prince, who was hunting in the forest, picked up
the lost slipper, and was so charmed with it that he desired to
make its owner his wife. So he made his wish known everywhere,
but nobody came to claim the slipper, and the poor Prince grew
very sad. At last some people from the Rajah's country heard of
it, and told the Prince where to find the Rajah's daughter; and
he went there, and asked for her as his wife, and they were
married. Sometime after, another wife of the Prince, being
jealous of the Rajah's daughter, stole her necklace, and put it