CHAPTER XV.—NEW YEAR'S DAY
[ 1 .] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 320 f.
[ 2 .] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 72.
[ 3 .] E. Thurston, “Omens and Superstitions of Southern India” (London, 1912), 17 f.
[ 4 .] Walsh, 742.
[ 5 .] Wylie, 81.
[ 6 .] Sébillot, 176.
[ 7 .] A. Maurice Low, “The American People” (London, 1911), ii. 6.
[ 8 .] Walsh, 739 f.
[ 9 .] Evans, 229.
[ 10.] Burne and Jackson, 315 f.
[ 11.] Notes and Queries, 5th Series, vol. iii. 6.
[ 12.] Information given by the Rev. E. J. Hardy, formerly Chaplain to the Forces at Hongkong.
[ 13.] Frazer, “Golden Bough,” iii. 204 f.
[ 14.] Burne and Jackson, 265.
[ 15.] Grimm, iv. 1784.
[ 16.] Harrison, “Themis,” 36.
[ 17.] Henderson, “Folk Lore of the Northern Counties,” 72 f.
[ 18.] Addy, 205.
[ 19.] G. Hastie in Folk-Lore, vol. iv., 1893, 309 f.
[ 20.] J. E. Crombie in same volume, 316 f.
[ 21.] Addy, 106; Burne and Jackson, 314; Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 337.
[ 22.] Rhys, “Celtic Folklore,” i. 339.
[ 23.] Ibid. 339 f.; W. Henderson, 74. Cf. Folk-Lore, vol. iii., 1892, 253 f.; vol. iv., 1893, 309 f.
[ 24.] Hastie (see Note 19), 311.
[ 25.] Walsh, 738.
[ 26.] Hastie, 312.
[ 27.] Chambers, “B. D.,” i. 28.
[ 28.] Ibid. ii. 789 f.; Notes and Queries, 2nd Series, vol. ix., 322; Dyer, 506.
[ 29.] Ashton, 228.
[ 30.] Hörmann, “Tiroler Volksleben,” 230 f.
[ 31.] J. G. Campbell, “Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland” (Glasgow, 1902), 232. Cf. the account given by Dr. Johnson, in Brand, 278.
[ 32.] Henderson, “Survivals of Belief among the Celts,” 263 f.
[ 33.] R. Chambers, “Popular Rhymes of Scotland” (Edinburgh, 1847), 296, and “B. D.,” ii. 788.[385]
[ 34.] “New English Dictionary,” v. (1) 327.
[ 35.] Cortet, 18.
[ 36.] Sébillot, 213.
[ 37.] Ibid. 213.
[ 38.] MacCulloch, “Guernsey Folk Lore,” 37.
[ 39.] Abbott, 80 f.
[ 40.] Stratilesco, 197 f.
[ 41.] Hamilton, 103.
[ 42.] Ibid. 104.
[ 43.] Mannhardt, “Baumkultus,” 593 f.
[ 44.] Latin text from Ducange in Chambers, “M. S.,” i. 254.
[ 45.] Wylie, 81.
[ 46.] Abbott, 78.
[ 47.] Grimm, iv. 1847.
[ 48.] Sébillot, 171.
[ 49.] Dyer, 7.
[ 50.] Ashton, 228.
[ 51.] A. Macdonell, “In the Abruzzi” (London, 1908), 102.
[ 52.] Abbott, 77.
[ 53.] Ralston, 205.
[ 54.] “The Athenæum” (London), Feb. 5, 1848; Notes and Queries, 1st Series, vol. v., 5.