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1. Hörmann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 240 f.

2. #Leigh Hunt, "The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed"# (London, 1850),
part ii. 31.

3. Beeching, 148 f.

4. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 261.

5. #E. Pasquier, "Les Recherches de la France"# (Paris, 1621), livre
iv., chap. ix. p. 375.

6. Cortet, 33.

7. _Ibid._ 34.

8. _Ibid._ 43.

9. #E. Du Méril, "Origines latines du théâtre moderne"# (Paris, 1849),
26 f.

10. Brand, 13.

11. #A. de Nore, "Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de
France"# (Paris, 1846), 173.

12. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 29 f.; Brand, 13.

13. #Matilde Serao, "La Madonna e i Santi"# (Naples, 1902), 128.

14. Reinach, i. 45 f.

15. Abbott, 77.

16. _Ibid._ 78.

17. Frazer, "Golden Bough," iii. 93.

18. Hörmann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 246; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

19. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

20. _Ibid._ 21 f. |386|

21. Stratilesco, 198.

22. Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

23. #Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco, "Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs"#
(London, 1886), 334.

24. #D. N. Lees, "Tuscan Feasts and Tuscan Friends"# (London, 1907), 87.

25. _Ibid._ 83.

26. Serao, 127 f.

27. #E. de Olavarría y Huarte, "El Folk-Lore de Madrid,"# 90. [Vol. ii.
of "Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españolas" (Seville,
1884).]

28. _Ibid._ 92.

29. "Memoirs of Mistral," 32 f.

30. Nore, 17.

31. Abbott, 87.

32. Frazer, "Magic Art," i. 275 f.

33. Hamilton, 118.

34. Brand, 16; Chambers, "B. D.," i. 56; Dyer, 21.

35. Aubrey, 40.

36. Brand, 16.

37. Beeching, 147.

38. Ashton, 87 f.

39. Hörmann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 225.

40. Tille, "D. W.," 254.

41. Hörmann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 230.

42. #W. S. Lach-Szyrma# in #"The Folk-Lore Record"# (London), vol. iv.,
1881, 53.

43. Brand, 17; Chambers, "B. D.," i. 55 f.; Dyer, 22 f. Several accounts
have been collected by Mrs. Leather, "Folk-Lore of Herefordshire,"
93 f.

44. Evans, 228.

45. Dyer, 24.

46. _Folk-Lore_, vol. v., 1894, 192.

47. _Ibid._ vol. vii., 1896, 340 f.

48. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 149 f.

49. W. Hone, "Every Day Book" (London, 1838), ii. 1649.

50. _Folk-Lore_, vol. vii., 1896, 342.

51. #[Sir] G. L. Gomme, "The Village Community"# (London, 1890), 242 f.

52. Busk, 99.

53. Dawson, 320.

54. #"The Nation"# (London), Dec. 10, 1910.

55. Burne and Jackson, 411.

56. Lloyd, 217.

57. Bilfinger, 24.

58. Brand, 18 f.

59. Dyer, 37.

60. Quoted from #"Journal of the Archæological Association,"# vol. vii.,
1852, 202, by Dyer, 39.

61. Chambers, "M. S.," i. 113.

62. _Ibid._ i. 114.

63. Usener, 310 f.

64. Naogeorgus, 48.

65. Sébillot, 179 f. |387|

66. Hörmann, "Tiroler Volksleben," 7.

67. Usener, 321.

68. Brand, 25. Cf. #G. W. Kitchin, "Seven Sages Of Durham"# (London,
1911), 113.

69. _The Gentleman's Magazine_, 1790, 719.

70. Dyer, 55 f.

71. Quoted by Dyer, 57, from #Martin's "Description of the Western Isles
of Scotland"# (1703), 119.

72. Gomme, "Folk-Lore Relics," 95.

73. Brand, 26.

74. _Ibid._ 26.

75. Burne and Jackson, 411.