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[2] A. Tille, _Die Geschichte der Deutschen Weihnacht_, Leipzig, 1893, p. 30.

[3] O. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Traditions et Légendes de la Belgique_, p. 302.

[4] Do., p. 323.

[5] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Das festliche Jahr der germanischen Völker_, Leipzig, 1863, pp. 360 ff.

[6] Do., pp. 362, 363.

[7] P.M. Hough, _Dutch Life in Town and Country_, London and New York, 1901, pp. 116 ff. The present account of St. Nicholas customs in Holland is based on notes from the book by Hough, but is not quoted exactly in order of details nor in wording.

[8] Do., p. 121.

[9] I. von Zingerle, _Zeitschrift für Volkskunde_, ii., 329 ff.

[10] Hough, _op. cit._, p. 117.

[11] Do., p. 125.

[12] Do., p. 125.

[13] I. von Zingerle, _op. cit._, p. 343.

[14] Hough, _op. cit._, p. 125.

[15] Do., p. 126.

[16] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Das festliche Jahr_, p. 362.

[17] Tille, _op. cit._, p. 35.

[18] Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, i., p. 420.

[19] Tille, _op. cit._, p. 299.

[20] Do., p. 36.

[21] Do., p. 33.

[22] Do., p. 36.

[23] Do., p. 202.

[24] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Das festliche Jahr_, p. 382; C. A. Miles, _Christmas_, London, 1912, p. 231.

[25] _St. Nicholas, Our Holidays_, New York, 1916, p. 64.

[26] W. A. Wheeler, _Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction_, Boston, 1883.

[27] Tille, _op. cit._, p. 119.

[28] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _op. cit._, p. 342.

[29] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, quoted by Miles, _op. cit._, p. 277, footnote.

[30] Hough, _op. cit._, p. 120.