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.