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1. Rhys, "Celtic Folklore," i. 320 f.

2. Henderson, "Folk Lore of the Northern Counties," 72.

3. #E. Thurston, "Omens and Superstitions of Southern India"# (London, 1912), 17 f.

4. Walsh, 742.

5. Wylie, 81.

6. Sebillot, 176.

7. #A. Maurice Low, "The American People"# (London, 1911), ii. 6.

8. Walsh, 739 f.

9. Evans, 229.

10. Burne and Jackson, 315 f.

11. Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. iii. 6.

12. Information given by the Rev. E. J. Hardy, formerly Chaplain to the Forces at Hongkong.

13. Frazer, "Golden Bough," iii. 204 f.

14. Burne and Jackson, 265.

15. Grimm, iv. 1784.

16. Harrison, "Themis," 36.

17. Henderson, "Folk Lore of the Northern Counties," 72 f.

18. Addy, 205.

19. G. Hastie in Folk-Lore, vol. iv., 1893, 309 f.

20. J. E. Crombie in same volume, 316 f.

21. Addy, 106; Burne and Jackson, 314; Rhys, "Celtic Folklore," i. 337.

22. Rhys, "Celtic Folklore," i. 339.

23. Ibid. 339 f.; W. Henderson, 74. Cf. Folk-Lore, vol. iii., 1892, 253 f.; vol. iv., 1893, 309 f.

24. Hastie (see Note 19), 311.

25. Walsh, 738.

26. Hastie, 312.

27. Chambers, "B. D.," i. 28.

28. Ibid. ii. 789 f.; Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, vol. ix., 322; Dyer, 506.

29. Ashton, 228.

30. Hoermann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 230 f.

31. #J. G. Campbell, "Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland"# (Glasgow, 1902), 232. Cf. the account given by Dr. Johnson, in Brand, 278.

32. Henderson, "Survivals of Belief among the Celts," 263 f.

33. #R. Chambers, "Popular Rhymes of Scotland"# (Edinburgh, 1847), 296, and "B. D.," ii. 788. |385|

34. "New English Dictionary," v. (1) 327.

35. Cortet, 18.

36. Sebillot, 213.

37. Ibid. 213.

38. MacCulloch, "Guernsey Folk Lore," 37.

39. Abbott, 80 f.

40. Stratilesco, 197 f.

41. Hamilton, 103.

42. Ibid. 104.

43. Mannhardt, "Baumkultus," 593 f.

44. Latin text from Ducange in Chambers, "M. S.," i. 254.

45. Wylie, 81.

46. Abbott, 78.

47. Grimm, iv. 1847.

48. Sebillot, 171.

49. Dyer, 7.

50. Ashton, 228.

51. #A. Macdonell, "In the Abruzzi"# (London, 1908), 102.

52. Abbott, 77.

53. Ralston, 205.

54. #"The Athenaeum"# (London), Feb. 5, 1848; Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. v., 5.