FOOTNOTES:
[1] In Christmas Tales of Flanders. Illustrated and collected by Jean De Bosschere. Dodd, Mead & Company.
[2] Reprinted by special permission from Stories and Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen. Copyright by Houghton, Mifflin Company.
[3] Reprinted by special permission from Twilight Land, by Howard Pyle. Copyright by Harper & Brothers
[4] By permission of the publishers from The City That Never Was Reached, by Dr. Jay T. Stocking. Copyright by The Pilgrim Press.
[5] From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales, by Parker Fillmore. Copyright by Harcourt, Brace & Company.
[6] Reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Pool of Stars, by Cornelia Meigs. Copyright, 1915, by the Macmillan Company.
[7] Reprinted by special permission from The Sons O' Cormac, by Aldis Dunbar. Copyright, 1920, by E. P. Dutton & Company.
[8] From Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables, by Aunt Naomi. Robert Scott, London.
[9] From English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs. Courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons, Publishers, New York and London.
[10] From The Sweet-Scented Name, by Fedor Sologub. Edited by Stephen Graham. Constable & Company, London.
[11] By permission from Granny's Wonderful Chair, by Frances Browne. Copyright by E. P. Dutton & Company.
[12] By permission from Christ Legends, by Selma Lagerlof. Copyright by Henry Holt & Company.
[13] By permission from This Way to Christmas, by Ruth Sawyer Durand. Harper & Brothers.
Also in The Children's Book of Christmas Stories; ed. by A. D. Dickinson and A. M. Skinner. Doubleday, Page.
[14] From Children of the Dawn, by Elsie Finnimore Buckley. Stokes, London.
[15] Reprinted by permission from The Red Book of Romance. Edited by Andrew Lang. Longmans, Green & Company.
[16] By permission from Under Greek Skies, by Julia Dragoumis. Copyright by E. P. Dutton & Company.
[17] By special permission from The Punishment of the Stingy, by George Bird Grinnell. Copyright by Harper & Brothers.
[18] By permission from Waukewa's Eagle, by James Buckham, in St. Nicholas, Vol. XXVIII, Part I, The Century Company.
[19] From The Wandering Heath, by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers.
[20] From Legends and Tales of North Cornwall, by Enys Tregarthen. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.
[21] Mad.
[22] Jack-o'-Lantern. Will-o'-the-Wisp. The Piskey Puck. Some say he walks about carrying a lantern, others, that he goes over the moors in his lantern.
[23] Waving.
[24] Little.
[25] In Cornwall, these "little Ancient People" are called Piskeys. In England and Ireland, Pixies.
[26] From The Wandering Heath, by Arthur Quiller-Couch; Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers.
[27] Beer-house.
[28] Breeches buoy.
[29] From English Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs. Courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
[30] To go from left to right, instead of following the Sun's course from right to left.
[31] Prose Version, by Anna Cogswell Tyler.
[32] It is a well-known fact that witches, or any evil spirits, have no power to follow a poor wight any further than the middle of the next running stream. It may be proper likewise to mention to the benighted traveler, that when he falls in with bogles, whatever danger there may be in his going forward, there is much more hazard in turning back.
[33] From Fairy-Gold, a book of old English Fairy Tales. Chosen by Ernest Rhys.