CHAPTER VII.—ALL HALLOW TIDE TO MARTINMAS

[ 1 .] R. Chambers, “The Book Of Days” (London, n.d.), ii. 538 [referred to as “B. D.”]; T. F. Thiselton Dyer, “British Popular Customs” (London, 1876), 396 f.

[ 2 .] [Sir] J. Rhys, “Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom” (London, 1888), 514, “Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx” (Oxford, 1901), i. 321.

[ 3 .] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 57 f.

[ 4 .] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 315 f.

[ 5 .] J. Dowden, “The Church Year and Kalendar” (Cambridge, 1910), 23 f.

[ 6 .] Cf. J. G. Frazer, “Adonis, Attis, Osiris” (2nd Edition, London, 1907), 315 f.

[ 7 .] E. B. Tylor, “Primitive Culture” (3rd Edition, London, 1891), ii. 38.

[ 8 .] Frazer, “Adonis,” 310.

[ 9 .] Ibid. 312 f.

[ 10.] P. Sébillot, “Coutumes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne” (Paris, 1886), 206.

[ 11.] L. von Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben” (Stuttgart, 1909), 193.

[ 12.] Frazer, “Adonis,” 315.

[ 13.] G. Pitrè, “Spettacoli e feste popolari siciliane” (Palermo, 1880), 393 f. Cf. H. F. Feilberg, “Jul” (Copenhagen, 1904), i. 67.

[ 14.] “Notes and Queries” (London), 3rd Series, vol. i. 446; Dyer, 408.

[ 15.] Frazer, “Adonis,” 250.

[ 16.] Dyer, 405 f.

[ 17.] Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. iv. 381; Dyer, 407.

[ 18.] C. S. Burne and G. F. Jackson, “Shropshire Folk-Lore” (London, 1883), 383.

[ 19.] Ibid. 381 f.

[ 20.] Quoted by Dyer, 410.

[ 21.] O. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, “Das festliche Jahr der germanischen Völker” (2nd Edition, Leipsic, 1898), 390.

[ 22.] “Archivio per lo studio delle tradizioni popolari” (Palermo), vol. viii. 574.

[ 23.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 189 f.

[ 24.] Frazer, “Adonis,” 303 f.

[ 25.] Ibid. 306 f.

[ 26.] Evans, 363 f.

[ 27.] Dyer, 394.

[ 28.] Ibid. 398.

[ 29.] Ibid. 394. Cf. Chambers, “B. D.,” ii. 519 f.

[ 30.] Dyer, 395.

[ 31.] Ibid. 399.

[ 32.] Ibid. 397 f.

[ 33.] S. O. Addy, “Household Tales, with other Traditional Remains. Collected in the Counties of Lincoln, Derby, and Nottingham” (London and Sheffield, 1895), 82.

[ 34.] Ibid. 85.

[ 35.] W. Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders” (2nd Edition, London, 1879), 101.

[ 36.] Dyer, 399.

[ 37.] Ibid. 403.[374]

[ 38.] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 321, “Celtic Heathendom,” 514.

[ 39.] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 328.

[ 40.] MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 259, 261.

[ 41.] Rhys, “Celtic Heathendom,” 515.

[ 42.] Ibid. 515.

[ 43.] Ibid. 515, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 225.

[ 44.] MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 262.

[ 45.] Brand, 211.

[ 46.] Dyer, 402.

[ 47.] Ibid. 394 f.

[ 48.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 299 f.

[ 49.] Burne and Jackson, 389.

[ 50.] Dyer, 409.

[ 51.] J. Grimm, “Teutonic Mythology” (Eng. Trans. by J. S. Stallybrass, London, 1880-8), i. 47.

[ 52.] K. Weinhold, “Weihnacht-Spiele und Lieder aus Süddeutschland und Schlesien” (Vienna, 1875), 6.

[ 53.] U. Jahn, “Die deutschen Opfergebräuche bei Ackerbau und Viehzucht” (Breslau, 1884), 262.

[ 54.] Ibid. 262.

[ 55.] Weinhold, 6.

[ 56.] Dyer, 472.

[ 57.] Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. i. 173; Dyer, 486.

[ 58.] Weinhold, 7.

[ 59.] Ibid. 10.

[ 60.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 449.

[ 61.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 166.

[ 62.] Dyer, 480.

[ 63.] Feilberg, ii. 228 f.

[ 64.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 393.

[ 65.] Tacitus, “Annales,” lib. i. cap. 50, quoted by Tille, “Y. & C.,” 25.

[ 66.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 26.

[ 67.] Ibid. 52.

[ 68.] Ibid. 27.

[ 69.] Brand, 216 f.

[ 70.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 401 f. For German Martinmas feasting, see also Jahn, 229 f.

[ 71.] Grimm, iv. 1838, for Danish custom; Jahn, 235 f., for German.

[ 72.] “The Folk-Lore Record” (London), vol. iv., 1881, 107; Dyer, 420.

[ 73.] MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 260.

[ 74.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 403.

[ 75.] Jahn, 246 f.

[ 76.] Ibid. 246; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 403.

[ 77.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 34 f.

[ 78.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 404; Jahn, 250.

[ 79.] Jahn, 247.

[ 80.] Angela Nardo-Cibele in Archivio trad. pop., vol. v. 238 f., for Venetia; Pitrè, 411 f., for Sicily.

[ 81.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 405.[375]

[ 82.] Jahn, 240.

[ 83.] Ibid. 241 f.

[ 84.] Ibid. 241.

[ 85.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 404.

[ 86.] Weinhold, 7.

[ 87.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 268; Weinhold, 7; Tille, “D. W.,” 25.

[ 88.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, illustration facing p. 406.

[ 89.] Ibid. 405.

[ 90.] Ibid. 404.

[ 91.] Ibid. 410; Tille, “D. W.,” 26 f.; W. Mannhardt, “Der Baumkultus der Germanen und ihrer Nachbarstämme” (Berlin, 1875. Vol. i. of “Wald- und Feldkulte”), 273.

[ 92.] Cf. Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 303, and Reinach, i. 180.

[ 93.] Archivio trad. pop., vol. v. 238 f., 358 f.

[ 94.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 274.