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1. Evans, 221 f.; Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 224 f. Cf. the account of the Servian Christmas in #Chedo Mijatovitch, "Servia and the Servians"# (London, 1908), 98 f.

2. Same sources. |379|

3. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 236.

4. Frazer, "Magic Art," ii. 208.

5. Ibid. ii. 232.

6. Evans, 219, 295, and 357.

7. Ibid. 222.

8. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 237.

9. Cf. Frazer, "Magic Art," ii. 233.

10. Ibid. ii. 365 f.

11. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 226 f.

12. #"Memoirs of Mistral"# (Eng. Trans. by C. E. Maud, London, 1907), 29 f.

13. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 226 f.

14. Sebillot, 218.

15. #A. de Gubernatis, "Storia Comparata degli Usi Natalizi"# (Milan, 1878), 112.

16. C. Casati in Archivio trad. pop., vol. vi. 168 f.

17. Jahn, 253.

18. Ibid. 254.

19. Ibid. 257.

20. Brand, 245; Dyer, 466.

21. # G. L. Gomme, "Folk Lore Relics of Early Village Life"# (London 1883), 99.

22. Ashton, 111.

23. Burne and Jackson, 402.

24. Ibid. 398 f.

25. Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. iv. 309; Dyer, 446 f.

26. #"The Gentleman's Magazine,"# 1790, 719.

27. Hampson, i. 109.

28. Feilberg, i. 118 f.

29. Ibid. i. 146.

30. Ibid. ii. 66 f.

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