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parable s.v. Literature; Oesterley on Gesta, 143; Wendenmuth., ii. 21. (But confusing with Damocles) Crane, ut supra; Cassell, Aus Literatur und Symholik, 166-8 ; Kuhn, 74-5.

The Four Caskets. — Occurrences in Barlaam. — In Arab., Georg., and Gr., therefore in original. In all derivates of Gr.

Indian Original. — Tale of Asoka's Minister Yasas. (Burnouf, Introd., 333; St. Hilaire, Bouddha, 105.) With the addition of "The Caskets," from Buddhistic "Folk-Tales," on which Benfey, Pants, i. 407 seq.

Parallels. — Buddhistic comparison of man's body to a casket (Lalita Vistara, tr. Foucaux, p. 358). Cf. Gospel parallel of Whited Sepulchres and Talmudic Legends, Baba Bathra, 58a; Synhedrin, 108b. (Cf. Gaster, Beiträge, pp. 6-10.) For Folk-Tales containing choice of Caskets, see Cosquin, l.c.

Derivates. — Vincentius Bellovacensis, Spec. hist., xv. 10; Gerard de Roussillon, ed. Michel; Legenda aurea, f. 138b, and offshoots; Guy de Cambrai, Barlaam, ed. Zotenberg and Meyer, p. 37; Jehan de Condé, "Dou roi et des hiermittes" in Dits et Contes, ed. Scheler., II. i. 63; Bartsch, Provenz. Lesebuch, 166-74; Storia de' SS. Barlaam e Giosafatte, ed. Bottari, Rome, 1734, p. 20; Vita di Giosafatte in Bini, Rime e prosa, Lucca, 1852, p. 124; Boccaccio, Decamerone, x. i; Gower, Confessio A mantis, ed. Pauli, ii. 203; Morlini, nov. v.; Straparola, Notti, fav. v. ; Carion, Chronica, 1533, f. 2013b (Kaiser Sigmund, see Genealogy for offshoots); Bromyard, Summa Prcedicantium, s. v. "Honor"; Gesta Romanorum, ed. Oesterley, 251, ed. Herrtage, p. 294 ; Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii. i, 7, 9 ; iii. 2 ; Jacques de Vitry, Exempla, ed. Crane, xlvii. ; Bozon, Contes moralises, ed. Toulmin Smith and Meyer, Ixxxiv.

Literature. — Braunholtz, ut supra. (Cf. Reviews by Zingarelli, Arch. Tradiz. Popol, iii. 143-6; Brandes, Anglia, viii. 24-6; Varnhagen, Deuts. Lit. Zeit. 1885,