CHAPTER XI.—THE CHRISTMAS-TREE, DECORATIONS, AND GIFTS

[ 1 .] I. A. R. Wylie, “My German Year” (London, 1910), 68.

[ 2 .] Mrs. A. Sidgwick, “Home Life in Germany” (London, 1908), 176.

[ 3 .] Tille, “D. W.,” 258. For the history and associations of the Christmas-tree see also E. M. Kronfeld, “Der Weihnachtsbaum” (Oldenburg, 1906).

[ 4 .] Tille, “D. W.,” 259.

[ 5 .] Ibid. 261.

[ 6 .] Ibid. 261 f.

[ 7 .] G. Rietschel, “Weihnachten in Kirche, Kunst und Volksleben” (Bielefeld and Leipsic, 1902), 153.

[ 8 .] Ibid., 153.

[ 9 .] Tille, “D. W.,” 270.

[ 10.] Rietschel, 151.

[ 11.] Ibid. 151.

[ 12.] Tille, “D. W.,” 267.[380]

[ 13.] Dyer, 442; E. M. Leather, “The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire” (London, 1912), 90.

[ 14.] Rietschel, 154.

[ 15.] Ashton, 189.

[ 16.] Ibid. 190.

[ 17.] Tille, “D. W.,” 271.

[ 18.] Ibid. 272.

[ 19.] Ibid. 277; Rietschel, 254.

[ 20.] Information supplied by the Rev. E. W. Lummis, who a few years ago was a pastor in the Münsterthal.

[ 21.] L. Macdonald in “The Pall Mall Gazette” (London), Dec. 28, 1911.

[ 22.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 174.

[ 23.] Ibid. 175 f.

[ 24.] Rietschel, 141.

[ 25.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 175.

[ 26.] Ibid. 172 f.; Chambers, “B. D.,” ii. 759.

[ 27.] Latin text in Chambers, “M. S.,” ii. 290.

[ 28.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 244.

[ 29.] Frazer, “Magic Art,” ii. 65.

[ 30.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 244.

[ 31.] Ibid. 241; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 18.

[ 32.] Lloyd, 168.

[ 33.] Dyer, 35.

[ 34.] W. F. Dawson, “Christmas: its Origin and Associations” (London, 1902), 325.

[ 35.] Harrison, “Themis,” 321.

[ 36.] Frazer, “Magic Art,” ii. 55 f.

[ 37.] Frazer, “Magic Art,” ii. 48.

[ 38.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 242 f.

[ 39.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 251.

[ 40.] Latin text, ibid. ii. 300.

[ 41.] J. Stow, “A Survay of London,” edited by Henry Morley (London, 1893), 123.

[ 42.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 251.

[ 43.] Grimm, iii. 1206; Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 327; MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 162, 205.

[ 44.] MacCulloch, “Religion of the Ancient Celts,” 162 f.

[ 45.] Grimm, iii. 1206.

[ 46.] Burne and Jackson, 246; Laisnel de la Salle, “Croyances et légendes du centre de la France” (Paris, 1875), i. 58.

[ 47.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 451 f.

[ 48.] Washington Irving, “The Sketch-Book” (Revised Edition, New York, 1860), 245.

[ 49.] Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. viii. 481.

[ 50.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 472.

[ 51.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 100.

[ 52.] Burne and Jackson, 245.

[ 53.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 226.

[ 54.] E. K. Chambers and F. Sidgwick, “Early English Lyrics” (London, 1907), 293; E. Rickert, “Ancient English Carols” (London, 1910), 262.[381]

[ 55.] Rickert, 262.

[ 56.] Burne and Jackson, 245 f., 397, 411.

[ 57.] Lloyd, 169.

[ 58.] Van Norman, 300.

[ 59.] Evans, 222.

[ 60.] Van Norman, 300 f.

[ 61.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 286 f.

[ 62.] Grimm, iv. 1831.

[ 63.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 238. Cf. Tille, “Y. & C.,” 104.

[ 64.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 420.

[ 65.] Tille, “D. W.,” 195.

[ 66.] Ibid. 197.

[ 67.] Bilfinger, 48.

[ 68.] Th. Bentzon, “Christmas in France” in “The Century Magazine” (New York), Dec., 1901, 173.

[ 69.] Feilberg, ii. 179 f.

[ 70.] Pitrè, 167, 404.

[ 71.] Feilberg, i. 196; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 453 f.; Wylie, 77 f.

[ 72.] Lloyd, 172.

[ 73.] W. Sandys, “Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern” (London, 1833), xcv.

[ 74.] Walsh, 240 f.; Ashton, 194 f.