Cupid and Psyche

This is probably an old *Folk-tale*, originally perhaps an antique philosophical temple-allegory. Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new shape. The tale is still current, but in a form *not* derived from him, among the *Swedes*, *Norwegians*, *Danes*, *Scots*, *Germans*, *French*, *Wallachians*, *Italians*, and *Hindoos*. See *Svenska Folk-sagor och Afventyr, efter muntlig Ofverlemning samlade och utgifna of G.O.H. Cavallius och G. Stephens*, vol. i. (Stockholm, 1844-9), p. 323.