CHAPTER XVI.—EPIPHANY TO CANDLEMAS

[ 1 .] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 240 f.

[ 2 .] Leigh Hunt, “The Seer; or, Common-Places Refreshed” (London, 1850), part ii. 31.

[ 3 .] Beeching, 148 f.

[ 4 .] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 261.

[ 5 .] E. Pasquier, “Les Recherches de la France” (Paris, 1621), livre iv., chap. ix. p. 375.

[ 6 .] Cortet, 33.

[ 7 .] Ibid. 34.

[ 8 .] Ibid. 43.

[ 9 .] E. Du Méril, “Origines latines du théâtre moderne” (Paris, 1849), 26 f.

[ 10.] Brand, 13.

[ 11.] A. de Nore, “Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de France” (Paris, 1846), 173.

[ 12.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 29 f.; Brand, 13.

[ 13.] Matilde Serao, “La Madonna e i Santi” (Naples, 1902), 128.

[ 14.] Reinach, i. 45 f.

[ 15.] Abbott, 77.

[ 16.] Ibid. 78.

[ 17.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 93.

[ 18.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 246; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

[ 19.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

[ 20.] Ibid. 21 f.[386]

[ 21.] Stratilesco, 198.

[ 22.] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, 21.

[ 23.] Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco, “Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs” (London, 1886), 334.

[ 24.] D. N. Lees, “Tuscan Feasts and Tuscan Friends” (London, 1907), 87.

[ 25.] Ibid. 83.

[ 26.] Serao, 127 f.

[ 27.] E. de Olavarría y Huarte, “El Folk-Lore de Madrid,” 90. [Vol. ii. of “Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españolas” (Seville, 1884).]

[ 28.] Ibid. 92.

[ 29.] “Memoirs of Mistral,” 32 f.

[ 30.] Nore, 17.

[ 31.] Abbott, 87.

[ 32.] Frazer, “Magic Art,” i. 275 f.

[ 33.] Hamilton, 118.

[ 34.] Brand, 16; Chambers, “B. D.,” i. 56; Dyer, 21.

[ 35.] Aubrey, 40.

[ 36.] Brand, 16.

[ 37.] Beeching, 147.

[ 38.] Ashton, 87 f.

[ 39.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 225.

[ 40.] Tille, “D. W.,” 254.

[ 41.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 230.

[ 42.] W. S. Lach-Szyrma in “The Folk-Lore Record” (London), vol. iv., 1881, 53.

[ 43.] Brand, 17; Chambers, “B. D.,” i. 55 f.; Dyer, 22 f. Several accounts have been collected by Mrs. Leather, “Folk-Lore of Herefordshire,” 93 f.

[ 44.] Evans, 228.

[ 45.] Dyer, 24.

[ 46.] Folk-Lore, vol. v., 1894, 192.

[ 47.] Ibid. vol. vii., 1896, 340 f.

[ 48.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 149 f.

[ 49.] W. Hone, “Every Day Book” (London, 1838), ii. 1649.

[ 50.] Folk-Lore, vol. vii., 1896, 342.

[ 51.] [Sir] G. L. Gomme, “The Village Community” (London, 1890), 242 f.

[ 52.] Busk, 99.

[ 53.] Dawson, 320.

[ 54.] “The Nation” (London), Dec. 10, 1910.

[ 55.] Burne and Jackson, 411.

[ 56.] Lloyd, 217.

[ 57.] Bilfinger, 24.

[ 58.] Brand, 18 f.

[ 59.] Dyer, 37.

[ 60.] Quoted from “Journal of the Archæological Association,” vol. vii., 1852, 202, by Dyer, 39.

[ 61.] Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 113.

[ 62.] Ibid. i. 114.

[ 63.] Usener, 310 f.

[ 64.] Naogeorgus, 48.

[ 65.] Sébillot, 179 f.[387]

[ 66.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 7.

[ 67.] Usener, 321.

[ 68.] Brand, 25. Cf. G. W. Kitchin, “Seven Sages Of Durham” (London, 1911), 113.

[ 69.] The Gentleman's Magazine, 1790, 719.

[ 70.] Dyer, 55 f.

[ 71.] Quoted by Dyer, 57, from Martin's “Description of the Western Isles of Scotland” (1703), 119.

[ 72.] Gomme, “Folk-Lore Relics,” 95.

[ 73.] Brand, 26.

[ 74.] Ibid. 26.

[ 75.] Burne and Jackson, 411.