[96] Vol. ii., pp. 588, 590.

[97] Several attributes of the heathen goddess Holda passed over to the worship of Mary in the Roman Catholic Church.

[98] Compare this with what is said by Pliny, and with the use of spittle by the Roman Catholics in baptism. [Chapter V. of this book].

[99] See A Short Account of the Holy Brook, etc., by John Gutslaff, Pastor at Urbs in Liefland, Dorpt, 1644, pp. 25, 258.

[100] Conquest of Mexico, vol. iii., p. 369 f., Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott.

[101] Hist. de Nueva Espana, lib. vi., cap. xxxvii.

[102] The Native Races, Myths, and Languages, vol. iii., p. 369 seq., San Francisco, 1882.

[103] Antiquities of Greece, by John Potter, D.D., vol. i., pp. 261-263, Edinburgh, 1832.

[104] See Satire vi., line 522.

[105] The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, by S. Baring Gould, M.A., vol. i., p. 397, London, 1869.