176, and P.Naecke, _Neurologische Centralblatt_, No.

17, 1907).

Naecke thinks there is some plausibility in Professor Petermann's suggestion that a frog writhing in a stork's bill resembles a tiny human creature.
In Iceland, according to Max Bartels ("Islaendischer Brauch und Volksglaube," etc., _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, 1900, Heft 2 and 3) we find a transition between the natural and the fanciful in the stories told to children of the origin of babies (the stork is here precluded, for it only extends to the southern border of Scandinavian lands).

In North Iceland it is said that God made the baby and the mother bore it, and on that account is now ill.

In the northwest it is said that God made the baby and gave it to the mother.