[ 8 .] J. Hastings, “Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics” (Edinburgh, 1910), iii. 601 f.

[ 9 .] E. K. Chambers, “The Mediaeval Stage” (Oxford, 1903), i. 244. [Referred to as “M. S.”]

[ 10.] A. Tille, “Yule and Christmas: their Place in the Germanic Year” (London, 1899), 122. [Referred to as “Y. & C.”]

[ 11.] Ibid. 164.

[ 12.] Tille, “D. W.,” 21.

[ 13.] Tille, “Y. & C.,” 203.

[ 14.] K. Lake in Hastings's “Encyclopædia” and in “The Guardian,” Dec. 29, 1911; F. C. Conybeare, Preface to “The Key of Truth, a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia” (Oxford, 1898), clii. f.; Usener, 18 f.

[ 15.] Usener, 27 f.

[ 16.] Ibid. 31; J. E. Harrison, “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion” (Cambridge, 1903), 550.

[ 17.] Harrison, “Prolegomena,” 402 f., 524 f., 550.[364]