CHAPTER I
[1] Manchester Guardian.
[2] A. Tille, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Weihnacht, Leipzig, 1893, p. 30.
[3] O. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Traditions et Légendes de la Belgique, p. 302.
[4] Do., p. 323.
[5] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr der germanischen Völker, Leipzig, 1863, pp. 360 ff.
[6] Do., pp. 362, 363.
[7] P.M. Hough, Dutch Life in Town and Country, London and New York, 1901, pp. 116 ff. The present account of St. Nicholas customs in Holland is based on notes from the book by Hough, but is not quoted exactly in order of details nor in wording.
[8] Do., p. 121.
[9] I. von Zingerle, Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, ii., 329 ff.
[10] Hough, op. cit., p. 117.
[11] Do., p. 125.
[12] Do., p. 125.
[13] I. von Zingerle, op. cit., p. 343.
[14] Hough, op. cit., p. 125.
[15] Do., p. 126.
[16] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr, p. 362.
[17] Tille, op. cit., p. 35.
[18] Brand, Popular Antiquities, i., p. 420.
[19] Tille, op. cit., p. 299.
[20] Do., p. 36.
[21] Do., p. 33.
[22] Do., p. 36.
[23] Do., p. 202.
[24] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, Das festliche Jahr, p. 382; C. A. Miles, Christmas, London, 1912, p. 231.
[25] St. Nicholas, Our Holidays, New York, 1916, p. 64.
[26] W. A. Wheeler, Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction, Boston, 1883.
[27] Tille, op. cit., p. 119.
[28] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, op. cit., p. 342.
[29] Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, quoted by Miles, op. cit., p. 277, footnote.
[30] Hough, op. cit., p. 120.