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Chapter Xiv.--St. Stephen's, St. John's, and Holy Innocents' Days

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan · Clement A. Miles — chapter 45 of 47 · ~120 words · public domain

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1. Hoermann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 237 f.

2. Dyer, 492.

3. #L. von Hoermann, "Das Tiroler Bauernjahr"# (Innsbruck, 1899), 204.

4. Ibid. 204.

5. Ibid. 204 f.

6. Feilberg, i. 212.

7. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 402.

8. Feilberg, i. 211.

9. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 402 f.

10. Ibid. 402 f.; Feilberg, i. 204 f.; Lloyd, 203 f.

11. #H. C. Beeching, "A Book of Christmas Verse"# (London, 1895), 21 f.

12. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 406.

13. Henderson, "Folk Lore of the Northern Counties," 67.

14. Jahn, 269 f.

15. Ibid. 270 f.

16. Ibid. 273. |384|

17. Dyer, 497 f.

18. Ibid. 498; Brand, 290.

19. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 264 f.

20. Ibid. 265 f.

21. Ibid. 268.

22. Frazer, "Golden Bough," iii. 129 f.

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